RC Lens "missed" the derby

The Lens defense did not hold the shock -

The show of force from Lensois supporters was not enough.

Coming in numbers to encourage their players before the departure by coach to the Pierre Mauroy stadium, the blood and gold fans must have had it bad since Sunday evening.

Scattered like a puzzle by the Losc (4-0) in the first derby in the North since 2015, the Sang et Ors missed out on their big meeting.

“Even if we had good intentions, we missed it, we were not in our usual arrangements.

It was not the good evening to fall against a team sure of its strength, cut for the Champions League when we come from Ligue 2. I regret that we did not make the match that we wanted to do and we used to do, ”deplores Franck Haise the Lensois coach.

"We learn a lot on bad evenings"

After a good series of five straight games without defeat, the promoted Lensois had settled on the Ligue 1 podium to everyone's surprise.

But in this derby where he was deprived of his striker Ganago (injured) and the Argentine defender Medina (suspended), RC Lens was quickly overtaken and outclassed.

Reduced to nine in the second half after the expulsions of Gradit and Michelin, Racing drank the chalice to the dregs.

“It's a bad night but you learn a lot on a bad night.

It's up to us to remain united to move forward and find what we have been doing well for quite a while, ”says Jean-Louis Leca, the captain of a Lens injured in his pride but still fifth in Ligue 1 after seven days.

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