The Alsatian supporters will no doubt have to get used to it: until the end of the season, Racing is in great danger of making them go up in an uncomfortable emotional and mathematical elevator, made up of ups and downs, without knowing if, at the end account, he will be able to avoid one of the four descents into purgatory in Ligue 2.
By pushing the Lensois dolphin to a draw on January 11 at La Meinau (2-2), then going to rob Olympique Lyonnais in their stadium three days later (2-1), Dimitri Liénard and his comrades had boosted the morale of their fans at the same time as theirs. But in a season where they are struggling on the waterline, sometimes a little above, much more often below, a single “poor performance”, to use the word of their new coach Mathieu Le Scornet, was enough to put their heads back…
