Three times everything to win for RC Lens in Lyon

1 Serene in the standings

This is the accounting profit of the first successful game. With 27 points already, the Sang et Or, who have a joker (game late in Marseille on January 20), can work calmly on their goal of maintaining (40-42 points) with 15 lengths in the relegation zone. It is indeed ” better to have that lead than just two or three points before going to a big fish “, Agrees Jean-Louis Leca, who has experienced back-to-wall battles with Bastia.

This can allow you to play free spirit and keep your principles. And it is an asset to try to pose problems to the Lyonnais. ” We have nothing to lose », Confirms the goalkeeper and vice-captain Lensois, who ensures that Racing respect Lyon enormously but moves as always with the ambition to take points. Points perhaps not initially planned in the flight plan of the promoted but which are now terribly tempting for Blood and Gold aware of having everything to gain.

2 Without complex

At the time of going to present his wishes to the leader, Lens can measure how much this Lyon has become formidable again with a series of 14 games without defeat, including 7 wins in 8 outings to end 2020. Here are twelve matches in a row that it has no longer lost in L1 at Groupama Stadium… And now is the time to stress that this will be the first time that the Sang et Ors will plant their crampons in this arena, since their last visit to Lyon dates back to 2014. It was at the Stade de Gerland and the Kombouaré team won 0-1 (goal from Nomenjanahary).

This does not make us any younger and should not say much to the Lensois of 2021. But the latter can still find a way to explore, especially since they have done well against the strong until then. Racing thus has three successes against the best ranked (PSG, Rennes and Monaco) for a single defeat against LOSC. He has not yet played Marseille. And therefore has no complex to do before Lyon.

3 Almost complete and refreshed

The victory before the holidays against Brest (2-1) allowed to keep a dynamic that the Sang et Or hope to have brought in 2021. Rested after the cut, they recovered very strongly from January 1, to the great satisfaction of Franck Haise who notices that the group has regenerated and is stimulating itself from the inside. The competition is there. And the coach has a lot of solutions to start 2021 on the right foot.

With a good resolution which this season, in Racing, is in fact a rule of life: ” Doubts must remain with the confidence that has been acquired to remain successful », Repeats the coach. The warning applies even before this first of the year when its players present themselves as real outsiders. But they are also eager to measure themselves against the leader with the added motivation that accompanies the quest for a feat.