The season for Lens, second in Ligue 1 one point behind Paris SG, “is not 99.99% successful, it is 100% successful”, assured coach Sang et or Franck Haise on Monday during a press briefing. “There is no frustration. When we are the Racing Club de Lens which was in Ligue 2 three years ago, when we score 84 points and we are in the Champions League directly, there is 100%, I mean 100% and I weigh my words, of success,” said the Lensois coach during a press conference by videoconference to take stock of the Lensoise season.
“I will not go back on that, that’s for sure”, he added, before specifying: “this collective has been magnificent all season (…) We can think that we have reached the maximum , in any case perhaps in terms of results, but in terms of collective we can always improve certain things”.
Promoted to Ligue 1 in 2020 and seventh in the championship for the past two seasons, Lens has changed this year by claiming the title, holding the dragee high at Paris SG and finishing only one unit behind the capital club, champion .
Absent from the European cups for more than 15 years and from the Champions League for 21 years, Lens is guaranteed to feature in pot 4 in the C1 draw, which should expose the club to particularly difficult opponents. . In a nod to this, Franck Haise cited among the three highlights of the Lensoise season the success of the Blood and Gold against Inter Milan for their last preseason friendly match, on July 23. Inter will play the Champions League final against Manchester City on Saturday.
