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Lens, time to enter the big leagues

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Lens, time to enter the big leagues

Fifth in Ligue 1 at the dawn of this 33e day, the Racing Club de Lens never ceases to impress. Promoted this season, the Sang et Or remain in particular in eleven games without defeat in the league. Before facing a daunting schedule during the last four days, the Northerners will have to make profitable their two successive meetings against Brest, from this weekend, then Nîmes, to give themselves a chance to believe in Europe.

You would have had to be a magician or wizard to imagine such a metamorphosis, between the Racing Club de Lens in winter 2020 and that of today. Precisely that of February 22, 2020. In the evening of the 26e day, the Lensois have just been atomized by Caen (1-4), modest fourteenth in Ligue 2, under the obvious whistles of a furious Bollaert. With this setback – the second in a row after the one suffered in Châteauroux a week earlier – the Sang et Ors came out of the leading duo for the first time since the 10e day. And for the club’s fifth consecutive season to purr in the antechamber of French football, the same chorus is slowly making its way into everyone’s mind: RC Lens is once again missing the right wagon for the League. 1.

But while we are only at the verse of the song, the leaders take the bull by the horns. Philippe Montanier landed earlier than expected, and immediately replaced by Franck Haise, then coach of the reserve. A poker move that works: the former FC Rouen midfielder managed to grab two small victories against Paris FC (0-2) and Orléans (1-0) to put his training back in the top two, before a blow unthinkable thumbs up from a damn virus hitting the world. The season is stopped, the standings frozen, and the RCL promoted to Ligue 1 … a small point ahead of AC Ajaccio.

Three monsters for the last four days

A year later, the fate of the 1998 French champion owes nothing to luck. Thanks to an ambitious recruitment last summer (Gaël Kakuta, Seko Fofana, Jonathan Clauss, Loïc Badé, Ignatius Ganago …) and an overflowing desire to play, Lens amazes, and this, since the beginning of this vintage 2020-2021 . From the first days, we quickly understood that the club would play something other than maintaining this
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