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By agreeing to postpone the championship match between Lens and Paris Saint-Germain, the Professional Football League has created a controversy. But don’t count on AS Saint-Etienne to fuel the scandal.
Originally scheduled for Saturday, six days after the Champions League final won by Bayern Munich (1-0), the Ligue 1 meeting between Racing Club de Lens and Paris Saint-Germain will finally be played on Thursday (9 p.m.) . The match was indeed postponed at the request of the Parisians, apparently tired after their European course. What annoy many observers who denounce a new privilege granted to the Ile-de-France club, of which President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is accused of leading the French championship. But what do we think about it in the Professional Football League?
Member of its board of directors and co-president of AS Saint-Etienne, Bernard Caïazzo clearly sided with PSG. ” As long as all parties agree, we are not going to create unnecessary controversies, reacted the Saint-Etienne leader in the columns of L’Equipe. We are not under the orders of PSG. If it was Monaco or Marseille in the same situation, we would have accepted in the same way. I am willing to postpone a game every time a club is in the C1 final. The other problem is that Lens-PSG was scheduled two days after France-Croatia in the League of Nations, hence the incomprehension of the Blues coach Didier Deschamps.