Other matches postponed to favor French clubs

Initially scheduled for this weekend, the match between PSG and FC Nantes has been postponed with the intention to enable the Rouge & Bleu to greatest put together for his or her spherical of 16 second leg of the Champions League. And this isn’t the primary time that the League has postponed matches to advertise the progress of French golf equipment within the European Cup.

The choice enormously divided French soccer. On February 28, the LFP introduced the postponement of the match between PSG and FC Nantes, counting for the twenty seventh day of Ligue 1. Initially scheduled for this weekend, this assembly will happen on April 20. This postponement goals to permit PSG to greatest put together for his or her spherical of 16 second leg of the Champions League on the pitch at Chelsea on March 17. In actual fact, solely six days separate the 2 confrontations towards the English membership. Thus, Luis Enrique’s gamers can have the entire weekend to arrange for this assembly towards the Blues.

Already postponements in 2003 for French golf equipment in European Cups

Nonetheless, this postponement is hotly debated. However this isn’t the primary time that the League has postponed a Ligue 1 match to advertise the progress of French golf equipment within the European Cup. In actual fact, this association of the calendar has been in place for a number of years now. “In 2003, the LFP Board of Administrators granted in October the postponement of three matches scheduled for December for golf equipment concerned within the Champions League, particularly OL, OM and AS Monaco, future finalist. Earlier than that, the European Cup was a supply of quite a few requests for postponement in Ligue 1 McDonald’s. Throughout the 2000s, golf equipment generally made a request on the idea of restoration instances between two matches or resulting from late returns of gamers following an extended European journey. Requests which on the time had not been accepted by the LFP Competitions Fee,” explains Ligue 1 on its web site.

Final season, PSG had already seen its assembly towards FC Nantes postponed to arrange for its Champions League quarter-final return towards Aston Villa. And this, “with a view to selling the progress of French golf equipment in European Cups contemplating that the advance of France’s UEFA index stays a necessary goal”, defined the LFP on the time. However different golf equipment than PSG have additionally had this favor from the League. Throughout the 2023-2024 season, the Lorient / PSG, Monaco / Lille and OM / Good conferences, counting for the twenty ninth day of the championship, had been postponed by round ten days. They had been initially deliberate for the weekend of April 13-14 and at last occurred on Wednesday April 24.

That very same season, the match on the thirty second day of the Rouge & Bleu was postponed between the thirty third and thirty fourth day of Ligue 1. Additionally certified for the semi-finals of the Europa League, OM noticed their match towards Stade de Reims postponed between the final two days of the championship. Lastly, in 2019, the League adjusted the Stade Rennais calendar. To greatest put together for his or her spherical of 16 first leg of the Europa League towards Arsenal, the Rennes / Nîmes assembly had been postponed.