2023-11-29 22:26:21
The 6-0 inflicted by Arsenal on Lens on Wednesday at the Emirates Stadium constitutes the biggest defeat received by a French club in the Champions League.
A rout. A beating. A humiliation. Call it what you want, the result is the same. Unrecognizable, RC Lens suffered a scathing 6-0 this Wednesday evening on the Arsenal pitch, during the fifth and penultimate day of the group stage of the Champions League.
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Lens is doing worse than its rival Lille
This is quite simply the largest defeat suffered by a French team in C1, that is to say in the modern phase of the competition, born in 1992. Until now, this sad “record” was shared by Lille and PSG. On November 7, 2012, Rudi Garcia’s Losc was corrected 6-1 in the group stage by Franck Ribéry’s Bayern Munich, future winner of the competition. Carried in particular by a hat-trick from his Peruvian center forward Claudio Pizarro, the Bavarian ogre made short work of the Mastiffs, who finished in last place in their group, behind BATE Borisov.
French football also remembers the famous comeback (6-1) inflicted by Barça on PSG on March 8, 2017. Despite their exploit in the first leg (4-0) at the Parc des Princes, Unai Emery’s Parisians sank this that evening at the Camp Nou in the round of 16 second leg. A defeat as memorable as it was incomprehensible, with Sergi Roberto’s famous goal scored in the final seconds of added time to eliminate the Parisians. In the history of European Cups, the biggest defeat ever received by a French club remains an improbable MTK Budapest-RC Strasbourg in 1961, lost 10-2 in Hungary by the Alsatians in the now defunct Fairgrounds Cup.
In terms of beatings, that of Lens at the Emirates Stadium is also the biggest defeat of a French club in European competition since Bordeaux against Parma in March 1999 in the UEFA Cup (also 6-0).
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