Samuel Dié

Striker - RC Lens
13 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Samuel Dié

18 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

RC Lens lose Samson Baidoo

18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

A bad afternoon for RC Lens against RC Strasbourg

0‑1 to RC Strasbourg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

No hiding place for Matthieu Udol

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matthieu Udol, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Samuel Dié gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

RC Lens draw a blank against FC Lorient

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. FC Lorient defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Squad

International call for Florian Thauvin

Florian Thauvin joins up with his country. RC Lens lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.

In brief

11 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Robin Risser keeps RC Lens in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Nader Saad: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” RC Lens have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

RC Lens find a way past Paris FC

Paris FC made RC Lens work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief

9 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The manager makes an example of Samuel Dié

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

RC Lens and Angers SCO take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Yad Lochereau knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Yad Lochereau trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief