Luis Campos breaks silence on Lens v PSG postponement

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·25. März 2026

Luis Campos breaks silence on Lens v PSG postponement

Luis Campos, football advisor to Paris Saint-Germain, spoke to RMC Sport on Wednesday evening to go over the whole “issue” surrounding the request to postpone the Matchday 29 Ligue 1 game in Lens, currently scheduled for Saturday, April 11, between the Champions League quarter-final matches against Liverpool (April 8 and 14).

🔴 Invité spécial de Rothen s'enflamme, Luis Campos explique la position du PSG sur la demande du report du match à Lens : "Si on avait le match aller mardi et le match retour mercredi, on n'aurait pas demandé le report de Lens. Nous sommes calmes et dans notre droit."
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Campos: “The result of serious reflection on the advantages and disadvantages of this postponement, whether for PSG or French football.”

“PSG’s position is clear and is the result of serious reflection on the advantages and disadvantages of this postponement, whether for PSG or French football. We think France can be better represented in Europe thanks to this postponement, in order to earn points (in the UEFA coefficient) and keep 5th place.

Campos: “We have nothing against Lens, they’re good friends.”

We have nothing against Lens, they’re good friends. If it had been another opponent, we would have done the same thing. We only want to represent France well. If we had played against Liverpool on Tuesday the 7th and Wednesday the 15th, it would have been easier for us. But Liverpool cannot play on April 15 because it is a tragic date (the Hillsborough disaster took place on April 15, 1989, editor’s note), and we respected that. The league already told us no this season. When we played against Marseille, the match was on the same day as the Ballon d’Or, and all the PSG players, with the team spirit that is their trademark, had asked to be present for Ousmane Dembélé’s celebration. The league refused to change the date, and we respected that decision.”, comments relayed by Le Parisien.

PSG’s position is very clear and defensible, just like Lens’s. Which the Parisian club can well understand, since the Lens club seems rather “disadvantaged” by the desired schedule change. At least in the short term. Because the Parisian club’s results in Europe truly matter for the image of the French league, its revenues, and its UEFA coefficient. The clubs are certainly happy to still have several places to play in Europe, while some have had disastrous campaigns in recent years.

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This season, only Paris and Strasbourg remain, and Strasbourg has also requested the postponement of its match against Brest between the two Conference League quarter-finals. Without causing nearly as much uproar. Both positions are defensible; the key is for the debate to take place calmly and with mutual listening. Above all, this should remain a matter between PSG, Lens, and the LFP.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.