The Lensois revengeful after Arsenal? “The 6-0, it’s not just the players who took it,” replies Franck Haise
“We would have to have a discussion with 25 players in the squad to give you a precise answer. When we see matches with complicated moments, we all want to show our true colors. It’s not just the players. The 6 -0, it’s not just the players who took it. We all took it, me, the staff, the group, the club. We want to see ourselves at our best.”
“There is no friendship”, Medina on his reunion with the Argentines of Seville
“I know Argentinians but there is no friendship, I defend my teammates, that’s how it is.”
Haise doesn’t care about Sevilla FC’s difficulties
“I don’t know if the opportunity is too good. I know the results of this team which is going through a difficult time. What interests me is my group, my players, that we take this match head on. body. Let us play it with all our energy, our confidence. To go through this series of ten championship matches without defeat, even if I am demanding of them, what they are doing is remarkable.”
Haise does not want to settle for a draw against Sevilla
“We are going to play it to win it, I want the players to take the initiative to win it. But even if we are not a management team, we are pragmatic when necessary.”
Franck Haise’s big rant against the travel ban on Sevillian supporters
“I regret it first of all, especially since the information was late,” Haise remarked at a press conference on Monday. “The draw (for the pools, Editor’s note) took place at the end of August (the 31st). The people who come from Spain, the Seville fans, organized not a trip but a trip. There are 300 or 400 of them and that ‘At the last moment we tell them no because there are certain problems… But all countries have a bit of them.’
“Let us tell them to stay at home, not even ten months before the organization of the Olympic Games. But how are we going to do for the Olympic Games if we cannot welcome 300 Sevillians on our soil? Beyond form late, there is still a real problem. That there are additional means to provide proper supervision, obviously but in this way; I don’t think this is the right solution.”
The Europa League, “not a consolation prize” for Haise
“It’s not a consolation prize. We would have liked to fight for the Champions League but we must not forget where we come from but to be able to continue a European Cup in 2024, I am very happy to have this chance to live. And we are going to live it to the fullest”
Machado alone absent
“The only one absent is “Macha” (Machado) who will have an operation in the coming days,” announces Franck Haise.
Franck Haise and Facundo Medina at a press conference
The defender and the coach will speak from 1 p.m. this Monday.
The meeting is ranked 2 out of 5 by the DNLH services
According to our information, the meeting between Lens and Seville is classified 2 out of 5 by the services of the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH). It was also one of the conditions for banning the travel of visiting supporters even during European Cups.
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The travel ban on Seville supporters confirmed by prefectural decree
Announced by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on Sunday, the travel ban on Sevilla FC supporters is made official by a prefectural decree published this Monday.
“From December 12, 2023 at 10 a.m. to December 13, 2023 at 3 a.m., any person claiming to be a supporter of Sevilla FC, or behaving as such, is prohibited from accessing the Bollaert-Delelis stadium in Lens and its surroundings”
The decision is justified in the decree by the fact that the meeting “is identified as risky by the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH)”. The decree is also based on “the attempts at contact between independent Lensois supporters and Spanish supporters the day before the first leg which took place on September 20, 2023 in order to organize a ‘fight'” but also on “the excesses and the brawl between Sevilla FC supporters and Arsenal supporters which occurred in the immediate vicinity of the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium following the match on October 25, 2023 which the Spanish club lost.
He also recalls the clashes between supporters of Sevilla FC and… AS Roma “which occurred in Budapest before the start of the Europa League final on May 31, 2023 and which left several injured”. He is concerned about the “links of friendship” between the supporters of Sevilla FC and those of the Liège club “who, given the sporting stakes of the meeting and their geographical proximity, could make the trip”.
The decision is motivated by “a real and serious risk of clash between supporters of the two clubs” but also by the current deployment of law enforcement to fight against the terrorist threat.
More information here.
Lensois ultras ready to give up their places to Seville supporters
“Tuesday, the Sevillans will be at Bollaert!!” In a press release posted on Sunday, the Red Tigers 1994, one of the Lensois club’s supporter groups, firmly contests the decision of the Ministry of the Interior to ban Sevilla FC supporters from traveling for the Champions League match . “We cannot accept and we will no longer accept these iniquitous and repressive decrees from a hard-pressed executive who just wants to flaunt his little biscotos to impress, the Red Tigers are angry. There were 2,000 of us in Seville, there were 1,600 of us in Eindhoven, there were 3,000 of us in London. Everything went well and the local public authorities had no difficulty in controlling the “beasts thirsty for Blood and Gold.”
These RCL supporters say they are ready to support the Sevillian fans who have already “reserved and paid for their means of transport, their tickets and their hotel nights and do not have to put up with your incompetence.” And added: “Faithful to the strong values of welcome, hospitality and conviviality of the mining basin and faithful to the principles of the Ultras which make us work for popular and united football, we will ensure to welcome the supporters of Seville even leaves our seats to let them into our stands!”
More information here.
Seville’s scathing response to Darmanin’s travel ban announcement
By decision of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, Sevillian supporters will be banned from traveling to Lens on Tuesday evening (9 p.m.), in the Champions League. A choice strongly criticized by the Spanish club, which was supported in this fight which it intends to lead in the coming hours by the Lensois supporters.
More info here: Seville’s scathing response to Darmanin’s announcement on the travel ban
Darmanin announces that Sevilla FC supporters will be banned from Lens on Tuesday evening
In the midst of a ban on travel for supporters in Ligue 1, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that Sevilla fans will be banned from traveling to Lens on Tuesday evening, for the match on the last day of the group stage. of the Champions League.
>> Darmanin announces that Seville fans will be banned from traveling to Lens
Classification
1-Arsenal 12 points (+12)
2-PSV Eindhoven 8 (-2)
3-Lens 5 (-6)
4-Sevilla FC 2 (-4)
The program
PSV-Arsenal (6:45 p.m.)
Lens-Seville (6:45 p.m.)
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