French Lille surprised many with their results in the current Champions League draw. The team suffered its second defeat in the overall stage last round at Anfield. It happened with a minimum score from the strongest team in Europe at the moment. Before the last round, the Doges had defeated Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Sturm and Bologna, lost to Sporting and made peace with Juventus. Also important is the fact that the defeat to Liverpool broke Lille's longest unbeaten streak in decades. Led by their leader Canadian forward David, the French team will definitely play in the knockout rounds for the right to participate in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League. However, a victory over the neighbour in the standings in the upcoming meeting and misfires of several competitors may allow Lille to finish in the top-8 and avoid the need to participate in the preliminary round of the playoffs. In a similar tournament situation is Feyenoord, having not only an equal number of points with the upcoming opponent, but also the same goal difference. The club from Rotterdam is higher than Lille in the standings only because of the greater number of goals scored - seventeen against eleven. Bookmakers have identified the home team as the favourites for the upcoming meeting, offering odds of 1.91 on their victory.

Feyenoord in the last round of the Champions League surprised the whole football Europe. The Dutch club, possessing the ball 20% of the game time and allowing Bayern to hit 30 times in the direction of their goal, defeated the Bundesliga leader with a resounding 3-0 victory. Of course, everything in that match went in Feyenoord's favour: luck turned in favour of Kane and company, the home side's goalkeeper was on fire and the counter-attacks of Jimenez and Ueda were accurate. Priske's team's one outstanding match, however, should not be over-emphasised. This season it has lost to Salzburg, Bayer and PSV, conceding three or four goals from each of their opponents.

After losing to Liverpool, Lille failed to adjust to Strasbourg in the next Ligue 1 match after returning from England. In the upcoming encounter, the home team's attitude will be completely different. Lille will play better than the visiting team.