• RC Lens bowed heavily on the Girondins de Bordeaux field (3-0) during the 37th day of Ligue 1.

  • Still sixth, the Sang et Or will play their qualification for the European Cup against Monaco next Sunday.

  • After a successful season, the Lensois hope to achieve a new feat to afford the icing on the cake.

At Matmut Atlantique,

It's a first this season. And it comes at the worst time. The Sang et Or have come off three straight losses for the first time this season. If against Paris and Lille they had some excuses, the heavy setback conceded to Matmut Atlantique against the Girondins (3-0) this Sunday evening was not really expected. But faced with an opponent who was playing for survival in Ligue 1, the Lensois "have never found the solution to a big block" says their coach Franck Haise who regretted "the lack of rhythm and especially of variety in his game in the last 30 meters ”.

For Corentin Jean, it is not a question of "relaxation or fatigue" this bad series at the end of the season.

The striker is uncompromising on the performance of his team in Gironde: “We made a non-match.

We got through it completely, we didn't do enough.

We thought maybe we were going to beat Bordeaux easily.

It hurts the head this defeat!

"

🔝 The very good operation of the @girondins in the race to maintain! #FCGBRCL pic.twitter.com/kfQVN9kRfD

- Ligue 1 Uber Eats (@ Ligue1UberEats) May 16, 2021

The former Trojan and Toulouse is severe because Lens has still mastered the debates (67% possession of the ball, 14 shots to 11 or even 30 centers to 10).

But his disappointment and frustration surely comes from the opportunity that the Sang et Or have let pass in the standings with the defeat of Rennes in Monaco while they will now host the Principality's club on the last day.

A last feat against Monaco?

Franck Haise also knows it.

But the Lensois coach also has memory:

We're still going to play on the last day to be European.

Even if I am of course disappointed with this defeat, I try to put things into perspective.

If I had been told that at the start of the season, I would have signed with all the pens on the planet.

"

As a reminder, RC Lens is indeed one of the promoted of the season.

After obviously the appetite comes when eating, that's why he calls his players "showed something else" next Sunday to go to Europe against one of the top names in the L1.

Still sixth, the Sang et Or are one point ahead of Rennes which will at the same time receive Nîmes, already relegated to L2.

Here is the TOP 10 after this 37th day!



The @ OM_Officiel is already guaranteed to play Europe 🇪🇺 next season 👍



📊 In details ➡ https://t.co/9yDTVYrCzp pic.twitter.com/rHG79wP8VI

- Ligue 1 Uber Eats (@ Ligue1UberEats) May 16, 2021

But why not achieve a new feat?

"Even if Monaco is heavy, it is not over," recalls Corentin Jean.

“We'll have to play a huge game to beat them but we've already managed to do it this season against other big teams.

We are capable of it, we have to believe in it to the end, ”insists Franck Haise.

It is not at all the kind of house to lose out anyway and maybe the support of the Lensois public before the meeting will not be too much.

Today in Lens the cake is already very beautiful after 37 days of Ligue 1, all that's missing is the icing on it.

Sport

Bordeaux-RC Lens: The Girondins almost maintained after their victory against the Sang et Or

Sport

RC Lens-Losc: Jean-Louis Leca castigates the arbitration after the slap received in the derby

  • Girondins of Bordeaux

  • Sport

  • Lille

  • Soccer

  • League 1

  • RC Lens