Placed in hat 4, Racing Club de Lens will be in a very difficult group for their big return to the Champions League.
There will be no suspense. If it is not that of knowing the names of the cadors who will tread the lawn of Bollaert this season. For its big comeback in the most prestigious of competitions, almost twenty years after its last participation, the Racing Club de Lens is preparing to face absolute monsters from the continent. Placed in hat 4, the formation of Franck Haise will not escape a very difficult group.
It’s a prospect as exciting as it is frightening for the last runner-up to Paris Saint-Germain. French clubs not used to frequenting this altitude have always inherited a group of death, with a few rare exceptions. The examples of Auxerre or Montpellier are certainly the most telling, ten years ago. What would be the worst group for the Blood and Gold?
A terrible group for Lens
Hats 1 and 2 are almost as high as each other. In the hat are FC Barcelona (Spain), Manchester City (England), Naples (Italy), Bayern Munich (Germany) Benfica (Portugal), Sevilla FC (Spain) and Feyenoord Rotterdam (Netherlands), in more from PSG, which Lens will not be able to face. In the second hat, we can find Real Madrid (Spain), Manchester United (England), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Atlético de Madrid (Spain), RB Leipzig (Germany), FC Porto (Portugal) , Arsenal (England) and Inter Milan (Italy). Finally, the third hat includes teams like AC Milan or Lazio of Rome.
The worst draw for Lens : Manchester City, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Lens.
