Paris St-Germain have requested to postpone their Ligue 1 recreation towards title rivals Lens which is sandwiched between the 2 legs of their Champions League quarter-final towards Liverpool.
PSG are scheduled to go to Lens in a top-of-the-table encounter on Saturday, 11 April – three days after internet hosting Arne Slot’s facet and three days before the second leg at Anfield.
Liverpool are set to host Fulham within the Premier League on 11 April.
In response to PSG’s request to France’s Ligue de Football Professionel (LFP), Lens – who’re chasing a primary league title since 1998 – issued a press release saying they’re strongly towards the “troubling sentiment” if the fixture is moved to a later date.
Lens added that their home league dangers being “gradually relegated to the status of an adjustment variable at the whim of the European imperatives of some”.
“Beyond this specific case, the question raised is a more fundamental one: that of the respect due to the competition itself,” a membership assertion stated.
“For one is entitled to wonder when, on its own soil, the league sometimes seems to be relegated to second place behind other ambitions, however legitimate they may be.”
A spokesperson for PSG informed BBC Sport that “this type of rescheduling has been carried out regularly by the LFP in the past for the benefit of French clubs” and “in no way calls the league into question”.
They added that “the performances of French clubs competing on the European stage benefit French football as whole, with France currently occupying 6th place in the Uefa coefficient rankings for the 2025-26 season.”
Second-placed Lens at the moment path leaders PSG by one level – and Lens head coach Pierre Sage stated after Sunday’s 5-1 win over Angers that his facet didn’t agree with a postponement.
In PSG’s earlier Champions League tie towards Chelsea, Luis Enrique’s facet had the weekend off in between the 2 legs as a result of their recreation towards Nantes was postponed after an identical request to assist them put together as successfully as attainable. The European champions gained 8-2 on combination.
Ultimately, the ultimate name is with the LFP, and their stance is they’ll look to help French golf equipment which are taking part in in Europe.
The LFP additionally confirmed Strasbourg have requested for his or her league recreation at Brest on that very same weekend to be postponed because it is available in between their Conference League video games towards Mainz.
