Lille vs Real Betis - prediction, team news, lineups

Real Betis volition play their archetypal Champions League crippled successful 21 years erstwhile they caput to France for Tuesday's League Phase clash against Lille.

The hosts are competing successful UEFA's elite nine contention for the 2nd clip successful 3 seasons aft making a knockout circular quality successful the 2024-25 edition. 

Match preview

Lille are competing successful the Champions League league signifier after Bruno Genesio guided the nine to a third-place decorativeness successful the 2025-26 Ligue 1 campaign.

Genesio subsequently near for the apical occupation astatine Marseille, paving the mode for Davide Ancelotti to instrumentality implicit the reins for his archetypal caput manager relation successful European football.

Ancelotti has started his tenure with a three-game unbeaten run, opening with a 2-0 triumph implicit Angers connected matchday 1 of the Ligue 1 season.

Les Dogues past looked to propulsion disconnected a astonishment 2-0 triumph implicit European champions Paris Saint-Germain, lone to concede 2 goals successful stoppage clip arsenic they were made to settee for a stock of the spoils.

Lille rapidly enactment that frustrating effect down them to instrumentality to winning ways with a 1-0 triumph distant to Toulouse, which came courtesy of a 73rd-minute victor from debutant Ayase Ueda.

The French broadside should fancy their chances of extending their unbeaten start, having mislaid conscionable 1 of their 9 location games against Spanish teams (W3, D5).

In fact, Ancelotti was successful the opposing dugout moving arsenic Real Madrid's adjunct erstwhile Lille bushed Los Blancos 1-0 successful their astir caller location clash against Spanish absorption successful the 2024-25 Champions League.

Betis, meanwhile, are looking guardant to competing successful the Champions League for the archetypal clip since suffering a radical signifier exit successful the 2005-06 edition.

A fifth-placed decorativeness successful the 2025-26 La Liga run proved capable to unafraid a spot successful the league phase, wherever they volition vie successful high-profile clashes against Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal and Bayern Munich.

Knowing the calibre of immoderate of their aboriginal opponents, Betis volition surely recognise the value of maximising their results from their archetypal 3 league signifier games against Lille, Porto and Feyenoord.

They tin instrumentality assurance from the information they person mislaid conscionable 2 of their past 7 matches against French absorption (D3, L2).

Manuel Pellegrini's should besides beryllium successful a assured temper aft claiming a hard-fought 1-0 triumph implicit Real Madrid connected Friday, becoming the archetypal squad to bushed Jose Mourinho's broadside this season. 

Troy Parrott came disconnected the seat to people his archetypal Betis extremity earlier Alvaro Valles saved Kylian Mbappe's stoppage-time penalty, not agelong aft Carlos Espi had an equaliser chalked disconnected for offside.

That effect was the cleanable effect to a astonishment 5-2 decision to Levante and represented their 3rd 1-0 triumph crossed their opening 4 games. 

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Team News

Hamza Igamane has been near retired of Lille's Champions League squad arsenic helium continues to enactment connected his rehabilitation from a semipermanent injury. 

Loun Srdanovic, Tanguy Nianzou and Soriba Diaoune are each astatine hazard of missing the European fixture owed to injury. 

Full-back Romain Perraud could gain a callback aft coming connected arsenic a half-time substitute successful the triumph implicit Toulouse. 

As for Betis, defender Diego Llorente and attacker Abde Ezzalzouli volition not question to France owed to wounded and unwellness respectively.

Diego Conde and Giovani Lo Celso person recovered from their respective injuries and are disposable for enactment for the archetypal clip this season.

Former Real Madrid midfielder Dani Ceballos could diagnostic successful a matchday squad for the archetypal clip since returning to Betis, though helium volition lone beryllium acceptable capable for a spot connected the seat owed to his deficiency of lucifer practice. 

Lille imaginable starting lineup:

Ozer; Santos, Ngoy, Alexsandro, Verdonk; Andre, Bentaleb; Mbappe, Haraldsson, Sahraoui; Giroud 

Real Betis imaginable starting lineup:

Valles; Bellerin, Bartra, Natan, Garcia; Bernal, Roca; Antony, Isco, Fornals; Parrott

We say: Lille 1-1 Real Betis

Betis person won 3 of their archetypal 4 games of the 2026-27 play and volition beryllium afloat of assurance aft their triumph implicit Real Madrid.

However, they look a pugnacious duty successful France, and we deliberation they volition person to beryllium contented with a constituent against a Lille broadside yet to suffer nether Ancelotti. 

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