How do you appreciate a group that lives really well and owes part of its current success to this state of fulfillment? To laughter in training of course, to hard work as soon as a member of the staff also sets the tone … But also to the maintenance of a beautiful tradition like the one established this season in Racing, which consists in a guard of honor with distribution of pies, slaps or torgnoles, as we want to call them, at will it is important to specify it, on the head of the player who is celebrating his birthday.
On this Thursday, September 25, watered with a fine rain, it is Jonathan Clauss, whose 28th birthday is being celebrated, who therefore had the right to see the sky fall on his head during the warm welcome of his friends on the training ground.
This happy kickoff was followed by a rhythmic warm-up. Then a very particular exercise where the soccer ball had been replaced by a rugby ball. The Lensois bit into the workshop with happiness and reorganized rules where it was notably possible to make the pass by hand forward like in American football. With also some instructions for control and restraint in tackling, obviously, in the name of respect for physical integrity …
The players then found football in an opposition where it was a question of putting intensity by using the width of the field well.
We could appreciate the return of Charles Boli, who was injured during the preparation. The young Lensois, who was back for the first time in a collective session with an adapted job, now has fifteen days ahead of him to be able to find the competition.
We can imagine that he will start to be ready for the derby in Lille after the international break. A reasonable time may also be for Clément Michelin, who suffers from a large sprained ankle dating from the last training on the eve of the match against Bordeaux, and for Seko Fofana, who relapsed (ischial injury) against the Girondins.
To play at the Stade des Costières on Sunday against Nîmes, Lens will, however, once again be able to count on Loïc Badé and Massadio Haïdara, both of whom are returning from suspension.
The Lensois group likely in Nîmes Guardians: Leca, Farinez. Defenders: Clauss, Gradit, Badé, Medina, Fortes, Haïdara, Sylla, Boura. Midfielders: Cahuzac, Doucouré, Pérez, Kakuta, Mauricio. Forwards: Banza, Ganago, Jean, Sotoca, Robail (or Pereira Da Costa). Absentees Treatments: Fofana, Michelin, Traoré. Resumption: Boli. Choice: Desprez (g), Diallo, Radovanovic, Bayala, Oudjani, Pereira Da Costa (or Robail).
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