PSG host Lens on Saturday and Lyon travel to Montpellier on Sunday before a decisive clash with Marseille the following weekend.
Without the ineligible Ferguson, who had been signed too late for the opening three rounds, McLean's side lost 1-0 in Lens, and were in very real danger of not making it through to the second round of a European competition for the first time since 1978-79.
United's reward for the win over Lens was a tricky tie against the Romanian side Universitatea Craiova, who had beaten Galatasaray in the previous round.
"What's Media Lens up to?" I asked myself.
This came to public attention, and the courts, when in 2008, during a match against the big northern team Lens, the supporters of Paris Saint-Germain unfurled a banner that read: Pédophiles, chômeurs, consanguins: bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (Paedophiles, unemployed, inbreds: meet the Northerners).
The Frenchman, who joined Real from Lens for £9m in 2011 after a reference from Zinedine Zidane, has been linked to Arsenal, Manchester United and PSG, but the prospect of Real allowing him to move seems remote.
Each director focuses on provocative action and drama in their films, but, more specifically, they show men can be positively sexually objectified through a female lens.
This was what Dodd calls her "unresolved sadness" and is perhaps a key to both her intensely private nature and also the miraculous intuition of her work, in which she finds people out with her seeing eye and her camera lens.
Russian Revels recently hosted a tasting night at Pushkin House, a Russian cultural centre in central London, in an attempt use "this tasty slab of fat as a lens to understand Ukraine".
In a hypothetical Venn diagram, one circle representing extremist Christians and the other fundamentalist capitalists, the lens-shaped overlap contains Sam Brownback, the newly re-elected governor of Kansas.
Other things that are no being banned: owning unregistered assault weapons in Connecticut; harassing celebrities and their children with long-lens cameras in California; hunting elephants in Botswana and injudicious calls to the London Fire Brigade (if you're a business you'll be fined for false alarms).
