The Belgian striker will once again be eagerly awaited, against Monaco, this Saturday at the Bollaert stadium.
Lively, technical, dynamic, explosive: Loïs Openda has everything to shine with RC Lens in Ligue 1. If he is still waiting to score his first goal, perhaps against Monaco on Saturday (5:00 p.m.), the 22-year-old Belgian striker years already gives satisfaction to his trainer and seduces his teammates.
He only has to unlock his counter to validate his beautiful summer… Admittedly, Loïs Openda has already scored in a friendly against Inter Milan (1-0), at the end of July, for his first at Bollaert. But, since then, the new artesian center-forward has come up against the opposing defense, against Brest (3-2), or Ajaccio (0-0), without undermining the hopes he arouses among the Sang et Or.
«He has confidence in himself, and does not doubt in front of goal. I am convinced that he will quickly find the paths of the nets“, launches, serene, Florian Sotoca. “It will happen very quickly with the help of my teammates, predicted the person concerned. I don’t worry.»
While waiting to see the former Speed Arnhem (Dutch D1) find the fault, Sotoca took charge of scoring the three Lensois goals of the season, and obviously of refining the technical relationship between them.
«You sometimes have more of a relationship with one player than with another. It’s easy to play with someone like him. He will bring us a lot on a human and collective level. He is a complete player in his game. He has a lot of qualities, and we played straight away, in training and during matches.“said Sotoca.
“More complete” than Kalimuendo
This shows that the integration has been ideal for the 22-year-old Belgian new international, but “like all players arrived in general“, specifies his trainer Franck Haise, who continues: “Lois has seen a surge due to a later comeback and a busy last season. Today, he is physically well and his partners know him better and better. He is not far from scoring. In any case, there are opportunities.»
Active, combative, Loïs Openda is already making opposing defenses shiver with her incessant running, her speed and her well-received calls.
«It takes a lot of depth. Back to goal, he can also hold the ball for us“, deciphers Sotoca, who defines the game of his teammate as”more complete“As that of Arnaud Kalimuendo, holder for the past two seasons at the forefront of the Lensoise attack and today in Rennes.
Proof that the leaders of Racing have targeted the necessary profile in this sector where Lens is also waiting for the return of Polish Adam Buksa from injury.
«Better and better integrated into the collectiveAccording to Franck Haise, Loïs Openda now hopes to materialize to take advantage of this beneficial atmosphere, this fulfilling context.
Perhaps in Monaco, Saturday (5:00 p.m.), where his training will aim for a third success in a row on the Rock, which would be a first in history. The Belgian would then take the opportunity to write the first lines of his history with Lens …
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