OL eye Champions League return after six-year wait, must beat Fenerbahçe | OneFootball

Six years on from their last Champions League night, OL are one win from returning, needing to beat Fenerbahçe after a 1-1 first leg. Three months after narrowly missing the Ligue 1 podium, they are negotiating a complicated qualifying route.

According to Le Progres, anticipation has built around an evening that could restore OL to the elite.

From 19 August 2020 to 26 August 2026, six years and seven days have passed. For a club that makes ambition its motto, the wait has felt long.

Back in Lisbon’s behind-closed-doors Final eight, OL stunned Manchester City 3-1 in the quarter-finals, before a 3-0 semi-final defeat in which Robert Lewandowski scored the third and final goal.

Those memories resurface as OL face Fenerbahçe again. A win would seal their Champions League return, anything less and the wait goes on.

Source: Le Progres

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