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Ligue 1: for the return of its fans, Lens snatches an exciting draw against Saint-Etienne

2021-08-15T17:22:49.501Z


Carried by a molten Bollaert stadium, the Sang et Or have found the resources to offer their supporters a deserved point against Saint-


After a draw in Rennes on the first day of the championship, RC Lens were again held in check but with a very encouraging performance.

What you must remember

Whatever the scenario of this Lens-Saint-Etienne, this Sunday was to be a celebration.

In true communion, the Blood and Gold supporters found their players in a packed Bollaert-Delelis stadium.

And it took much more than the express goal scored by Wahbi Khazri, the fastest of the season in L1 (19 seconds), to cool this chamber that had melted for a huge event on the Lensoise scale.

The northerner audience sang, cheered, pushed over and over. On a perfect cross from home passer Jonathan Clauss, Ignatius Ganago uncrossed his head to find the opposite small net (1-1, 35 '). And the Bollaert furnace to raise the decibels a little more. Forced to draw last weekend in Rennes (1-1), Lens felt he had to bow while the young Christopher Wooh (19), already surprised on the first goal, was mystified by Denis Bouanga who came to conclude a closed angle firecracker (1-2, 52nd).

But with a strike in the window of a good Etienne Green (2-2, 77th), captain Sekou Fofana allowed the Lensois to snatch a sufficient point, capsizing in the process the 35,541 supporters present in the stadium, and who have never ceased to believe in it.

Because at the foot of Europe last season without its twelfth man, RC Lens has an additional card to aim even higher.

Maybe he will.

His audience deserves it so much.

85 '(2-2) 📸


Hand on heart ❤️💛 # RCLASSE pic.twitter.com/ltDrq9nNoq

- Racing Club de Lens (@RCLens) August 15, 2021

The player: Jonathan Clauss

He concluded last season with a flattering record of six assists for his first season in Ligue 1, allowing him to sneak into the typical team of the Championship during the UNFP Trophies.

And from the second day of this 2021-22 lift, Jonathan Clauss released his counter in the exercise.

Tireless worker in his role of right piston, the former player of Arminia Bielefeld who hatched late in France, put in a Ganago chair for the equalizer.

Further confirming his status as an L1 sniper.

The number: 3,739

This is the number of days that Lensois fans had to wait to see their players playing at home in Ligue 1 (in a full stadium).

The last time was during a Lens-Arles-Avignon, May 21, 2011 - the 2014-2015 season had been relocated to Amiens because of the renovation of the stadium.

15 '(0-1) 📸


Only Bollaert-Delelis ❤️💛 # RCLASSE pic.twitter.com/wZVoft6aFC

- Racing Club de Lens (@RCLens) August 15, 2021

Source: leparis

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