Here is the digestion of the players assured ... The French Federation and the broadcasters of the 8th final of the Coupe de France (France Télévisions and Eurosport), brought forward to Wednesday March 17 due to the presence of PSG in the quarter-finals of the Champions League at the scheduled dates (April 6 or 7), have finally made an incredible effort to postpone the kickoff from 2 p.m. to ... 4:45 p.m.
This will be far from completely satisfying the PSG, very angry by the decision of the French authorities to schedule an 8th final of the Coupe de France in full during the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
A heresy of the calendar which forced Mauricio Pochettino's team to play this match against Lille four days before his trip to Lyon, Sunday 21 (9 p.m.) for a decisive meeting in the title race.
"People do not imagine the recovery problems that this poses"
By playing at 4:45 p.m., players will return to a more usual schedule.
"2 pm, where does it come from?"
»Astonished someone close to the case.
France Télévisions did not want to touch its usual end-of-day meetings.
Its leaders had already done the same with the finals of the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue, brought forward to Friday so as not to interfere with the broadcast of Fort Boyard on Saturday.
As a reminder, an evening broadcast was impossible.
UEFA bans matches at the same time as the Champions League, which will be the case on that day.
This Thursday, Christophe Galtier, the coach of Losc, had judged “ridiculous” the programming in midweek.
“People can't imagine the recovery problems this poses for both teams.
In addition, these are the two French teams that have played the most of the season currently.
And they will have to deal with the busiest schedule!
Do the broadcasters really want us to field two reserve teams next Wednesday?
Especially since we will continue from the following Saturday with the reception in Nîmes?
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