Le Championnat

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Lille's latest performances are not as bad as results are showing. Champions League games took some breath away but now i think they should be ready to make a final sprint in league. They want to be part of CL also next year and IMO they deserve it. Losing against Le Mans was defenitely not a good momentbut now they must recover those lost points somewhere. Currently they are having some problems with injuries and suspensions but despite everything, motivated Lille's squard has enough quality to beat their north neighbours. This should be additional motive to do well. They were dominated team back in November, despite having a midweek game in CL against AEK in Athens.

Valenciennes is a suprise package, very unpredictable - from good to bad. Simply they have two faces. I trust Lille here, losing against Le Mans in previous round and playing a derby ... just additional motives wich should fire them up.