Tuesday, we mentioned the desire of RC Lens to see the club face Saint-Etienne in early December at the time of Sainte-Barbe, patron saint of miners. In an obviously very specific health context, the number of possible requests per club has finally been reduced this season. Also, if three requests had been possible, as is generally the case each season, RC Lens would have asked this option to the Professional Football League. But the LFP logically limited its number of requests to one per club, due to COVID-19, an obviously very special off-season and a schedule more complicated to develop than usual.
As well, the twenty L1 clubs could only decide on the holding of the 1st day. Lens, who changed his lawn during the offseason and is also making some adjustments to Bollaert-Delelis, asked to play outside on August 23 or 24 to resume the championship.
The idea of a match against Saint-Etienne for Sainte-Barbe, which has received a generally positive response from Lensois supporters, is obviously not abandoned. And if the coincidence of the calendar did not offer this poster for the 2020-2021 season, it is a safe bet that the request would be made, in this sense, in 2021-2022, if the two teams stayed in L1 and if the possibility of making three wishes became topical again.