PSG 'responds' to anger over controversial request for Liverpool game
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Liverpool FC NewsFeaturesParis Saint-Germain FCIt's claimed that Paris Saint-Germain has defended its request to postpone its Ligue 1 match with Lens to allow for extra rest before its Champions League fixture with LiverpoolParis Saint-Germain wants a Ligue 1 game postponed(Image: Getty Images)It's believed that Paris Saint-Germain has stood by its request to postpone a Ligue 1 game to better prepare for its Champions League encounter with Liverpool.The French team has faced mockery for attempting to reschedule its match with title contenders Lens. The latter club has dismissed the idea of such a postponement.
PSG successfully secured such a request for its European tie with Chelsea and now wishes to guarantee a week of rest between its scheduled Liverpool games.The meeting with Lens is presently slated for between those matches. A verdict on the club's request is anticipated on Thursday following the LFP board meeting, according to reports in France.READ MORE: Dominik Szoboszlai spends time with family after suffering soccer heartbreakREAD MORE: Liverpool confirms new contract for talented midfielder as progress rewardedAnd amid the backlash, PSG is reportedly insisting it is a move that will benefit the entirety of French soccer.According to Le Parisien, PSG maintains that such a move is "structured and transparent, in no way calls into question the championship."A club source is alleged to have said: "The performances of French clubs competing in European competitions benefit French football as a whole, especially given that France currently occupies 6th place in the UEFA coefficient rankings for the 2025-2026 season.PSG is due to face Lens in Ligue 1(Image: Getty Images)"The stakes are high: securing 5th place in the UEFA coefficient rankings, which means better representation for French football in European competitions, with up to seven clubs qualifying."The success of French clubs in Europe also generates direct benefits for all professional clubs, not just the teams involved in these competitions."The prospect of seeing two French clubs reach the semifinals of European competitions represents a significant opportunity for Ligue 1, both sportingly and economically."It was stressed: "This type of rescheduling has been implemented regularly by the LFP in the past, to the benefit of many French clubs involved in European competitions."The announcement came after Lens had made its own stance clear.
It is opposed to seeing the match postponed."It does indeed appear to us that a troubling sentiment is taking hold: that of a French championship gradually relegated to the status of an adjustment variable at the whim of the European imperatives of some," Lens said in a statement."A singular conception of sporting equity, the equivalent of which is hard to find in other major continental competitions."Changing the date of this match today would mean, for Racing Club de Lens, being deprived of competition for 15 days and then chaining matches every three days — a rhythm that corresponds neither to the one defined at the start of the championship, nor to the resources of a club that could absorb this type of new constraint without consequence."Choose Liverpool.com as a 'Preferred Source' on Google News for quick access to the news you value.Paris Saint-Germain FCLiverpool FCChampions League