FOOTBALL: Opposed to the final Lille, PSG dream to keep "his" Coupe de France

AFP - The Cup of France offered Saturday at the Stade de France a gala final between the two teams most spectacular Ligue 1: Lille in contention for the double, and Paris St Germain, the defending champion and a true expert the test in search of a ninth trophy.

Before you plunge into the deep end of the championship and look to a possible third crown, Lille will want first to end a long drought and could even raise the Cup, 56 years after their fifth and final victory.

If Lille could have without the services of one of his masterpieces of the medium, Florent Balmont (thigh tear), he can always count on the young Belgian Hazard (20 years) and a true specialist in the Cup person Mickaël Landreau.

The guard, who lifted the trophy twice with Nantes (1999, 2000), has never lost a final and has even done by hand this week in L1 by stopping a penalty kick against the Greens. After releasing his first club in 8th-finals (1-1 ap, 3 tab 2), it could close the loop by crucifying PSG, where he played from 2006 to 2009.

With 8 trophies to their credit, the Parisians are in fact very far from the record of wins in the Coupe de France held by the enemy Marseille (10).

While the capital club is back to the forefront after several lackluster seasons, a new coronation at the Stade de France after he won in 2010 against Monaco (1-0 aet) Boost without doubt struggling with training Lyon return to the Champions League for the first time since 2004.