The RC Lens Herald
Squad23 Nov 2026
Robin Risser decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match18 Nov 2026
RC Lens march on in the cup
Angers SCO are out and RC Lens go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Robert Lopez says RC Lens went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A first appearance Robert Sanchez will want to forget — 5.56
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.56, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for RC Lens
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at RC Lens
Amadou Haïdara was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at RC Lens training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florian Thauvin is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Nhoa Sangui runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
RC Lens supporters have found a favourite in Ismaëlo Ganiou
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Ismaëlo Ganiou has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Player ratings The kick that got away from Andrija Bulatović
- Player ratings Ismaëlo Ganiou stands above it all
- Match RC Lens and Stade Rennais take a point apiece