Paris Saint-Germain are sweating on the fitness of Senny Mayulu ahead of their Champions League tie against Liverpool. Mayulu picked up a calf injury during the 4-0 win over Nice on Saturday and now faces a race against time to be fit for the quarter-final tie.
Bradley Barcola is already an injury concern for the Ligue 1 side and in a statement, PSG also confirmed: “After suffering an injury to his right calf during yesterday’s match against Nice, Senny Mayulu will undergo treatment for the next two weeks.”
The injury blow comes as the Ligue de Football Professionel (LFP) have confirmed they have received a request from PSG to postpone their league game against RC Lens.
PSG are scheduled to visit Lens in a top-of-the-table clash on Saturday 11 April, with the fixture coming in between both legs of their tie against Liverpool. The Reds also have a league match scheduled on that day, against Fulham at 5:30pm.
But responding to the request, Lens, who are just a point behind PSG in the table, released a statement in which they referenced the “worrying sentiment” of having the fixture moved to a later date.
“On March 6, the scheduling of the match pitting Racing Club de Lens against Paris Saint-Germain was finalised, formalising a framework to which everyone was then invited to adhere,” the statement read.
“In a spirit of responsibility and restraint, Racing Club de Lens, from the very first requests, made it known to Paris Saint-Germain its intention not to see this date changed. True to a certain idea of sporting stability, the club had also chosen to refrain from any public communication on this subject.
“However, the recent proliferation of statements, interventions, and various suggestions now leads us to break from this reserve.
“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. 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.
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“It would therefore be understood that the tenth budget in the championship should adapt to the demands of the most powerful, in the name of interests that, evidently, now extend beyond the domestic framework, which has already been lightened in recent seasons (L1 reduced to 18 clubs, discontinuation of the Coupe de la Ligue).
“Beyond this particular case, the question raised is more fundamental: that of the respect due to the competition itself. For it is permissible to wonder when, on its own soil, the championship sometimes seems relegated behind other ambitions, however legitimate they may be.
“Racing Club de Lens remains committed to equity, the clarity of rules, and respect for all stakeholders. Simple principles, for a loyal and respected French football."
