After Nantes – Lens – Franck Haise: “Sometimes, we think we are a little above what we really are”

Irresistible at the start of the season, the northern club is now only pleasant to see in sequences. And it costs him more and more, even if the performance against Paris last week was far more convincing than that performed at Beaujoire. We had already seen Franck Haise’s men drop and then ease off, without this being really worrying for a team so dynamic offensively and defensively. But never in such proportions.

The risk of slipping in the standings

“We all have something to be ashamed of, insisted the RCL coach at a press conference. You had to hang on to at least get a point, even if that was not the goal at the start. We didn’t make the right choices, we didn’t have the right attitudes. We have to be able to face 11, to stay balanced, especially when we feel that we no longer control the game. We must be strong, together. “

With this defeat, Lens missed the opportunity to return temporarily to Marseille, in third place, and put pressure on a long list of contenders for the podium. In the standings, the teammates of Jonathan Clauss, absent because suspended in Nantes, could be closer to the middle of the table than to the first three places at the end of this 18th day, even if several posters will pit candidates for European places this weekend. On the evening of the 13th day, they were still runners-up to Paris Saint-Germain.

“With 3 points out of 15 possible, obviously we fall into line, noted Haise. Meanwhile, the others advance, the championship is very tight. “Before a match against Poitiers next Sunday in the Coupe de France and then another perilous trip to Nice before the truce, the Sang et Or will therefore have a few days to find solutions.

“It’s professional misconduct, dropped Yannick Cahuzac at the microphone of the broadcaster. We all have to question ourselves, me first because the 3rd goal is for me. Congratulations to Nantes, but we also helped them a lot. We cannot alternate the very good and the very bad as we did this evening. We really need to rediscover our values ​​of fighting spirit and solidarity. ”

The Lensois obviously do not intend to spare: “Sometimes we think we’re a little above what we really are, breathed Haise. This is the question we will have to ask ourselves. “