how Lens dreams (very) big before challenging OM
RC Lens will play a key match against OM on Saturday evening (9 p.m.). PASCAL…
how Lens dreams (very) big before challenging OM
RC Lens will play a key match against OM on Saturday evening (9 p.m.). PASCAL ROSSIGNOL/REUTERS
DECRYPTION – Opposed to OM in the clash of the dolphins, the northern club, 3rd in Ligue 1, is aiming for an end to the season in apotheosis.
“At RC Lens, we are not a team where we can name all the players but, in the enthusiasm, the desire to return matches and the collective spirit, we leave no one indifferent.In one sentence, Arnaud Pouille, general manager of the RCL since 2017, describes the face of the northern formation which receives OM Saturday evening (9 p.m., Canal+ Foot) with the intention of stealing second place in Ligue 1 to its direct competitor. Five days away from an epilogue as exciting as it is undecided, behind a struggling Paris SG (1er with 75 points, against 70 in Marseille and 69 in Lens), this clash between Lensois and Marseillais makes football France salivate.
Last August, few observers would have imagined the Sang et Or inviting themselves to the fight for the podium at this time of the season. And on the side of the main interested parties, simple reward or anomaly? “No, it is first of all the reward for the work accomplished, since the season when the club returned to Ligue 1attests to FigaroFrank Haise52 years…
