Facing a Sporting Portugal team still unbeaten this season, Lens and Yannick Cahuzac will be put to the test to reveal their true potential.
By hosting Sporting Portugal team, unbeaten since the start of the season and end up quarter-finalists last year in the Champions League competition, RC Lens will know more about their level since Yannick Cahuzac took over.
Let’s revisit Yannick Cahuzac ‘s his recent history: there was his debut night in Monaco with (1-2) with only two meager training sessions to prepare for the start, his debut night at Bollaert after a proper three-week preseason game against Lyon with (2-1), and now, this Tuesday, his Champions League competition debut against Sporting Lisbon by(18:45 pm). We then wrap up the list of rookies.
After this eagerly awaited late afternoon time, Cahuzac, who will have a video call around 8:00 a.m. with his BEPF instructors before rejoining his group in two hours later, will be able to return to his studies again, with a clear conscience and, he hopes, a big smile on his face. He will have seen and experienced everything in less than one month in a rare whirlwind of emotions.
At least Dino Toppmöller, his predecessor and a man of strong friendships, left him a parting gift in his final match: with 3-2 wining in Prague against Slavia Prague, like the beginning of a beautiful European competition. The German coach never imagine then that his assistant, who was not well-liked internally, would cause him to be dismissed abruptly as a gesture of solidarity.
Internally, some Lens players claim to be reborn today in a more composed, more structured pattern than the bouncer-like brutality seen under the German’s tenure. Cahuzac has calm everything by minimizing certain risks, those pressing games that sometimes put the team in difficulty when they lost possession, and Sporting, with unbeaten this season, arrives at just the right time to judge the progress of this team squad, including the staff, still young, inexperienced at this level of competition and deprived of a number of key players this summer, particularly in midfield (Mamadou Sangaré and Adrien Thomasson).
