DECRYPTION – The northern club challenges Sevilla while it is experiencing the worst start to the season in its history in Ligue 1.
Three whistles and boos falling from the aisles of the Félix-Bollaert stadium. Jonathan Gradit, his forehead beaded with sweat, wanders around looking haggard. Salis Abdul Samed shakes his head from left to right. By losing to Metz last Saturday (0-1), RC Lens punctuated the worst start to a season in its history in sixty-three years spent in Ligue 1, when it had beaten its points record on the ‘Previous exercice. Never has a runner-up in the championship scored just one point after five days. “I didn’t think I’d be there», squeaked, hotly, trainer Franck Haise. The brutality of such a fall “is difficult to explain», Regrets Guillaume Warmuz, former emblematic goalkeeper of Sang et Or (1992-2003). There are still avenues for reflection.
First of all, there is the insolent success of the adversaries, with figures to back it up. Lens conceded 11 goals, the highest total in L1. According to the statistician Opta, who measures the quality of opportunities created through a complex algorithm…
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