A Tactical Guide to Franck Haise's RC Lens

Three years ago, Franck Haise led Lens into Ligue 1. Three years later, he's led them into the Champions League and missed out on the league title by just one point. 0:00 Introduction 1:24 Simple early tactics 1:54 Formations 2:11 Playing out from the back 3:13 Jonathan Gradit in possession 4:21 Facundo Medina in possession 5:00 Kevin Danso in possession 6:15 Brice Samba in possession 6:58 Lens playing short or long 8:22 Salis Abdul Samed in possession 9:00 Lens playing through the midfield 12:36 Lens playing wide 15:03 Florian Sotoca 16:05 David Pereira da Costa 17:04 Wesley Saïd 17:23 Alexis Claude-Maurice 17:42 Adrien Thomasson 18:09 Angelo Fulgini 18:29 Seko Fofana in possession 19:21 Lukasz Poreba 19:34 Loïs Openda 20:52 Without Openda 21:21 Adam Buksa 21:37 Overloading the opposition defence 22:21 Przemyslaw Frankowski in possession 23:09 Jimmy Cabot and Julien Le Cardinal 23:39 Deiver Machado in possession 24:06 Massadio Haïdara 24:42 Lens flood the box 26:24 Lens conceding counters 28:12 Lens counter-pressing 28:30 Lens pressing 30:03 Przemyslaw Frankowski defending 30:41 Deiver Machado defending 31:11 Lens defending the midfield 31:40 Salis Abdul Samed defending 32:15 Seko Fofana defending 32:55 Jean Onana 33:34 Facundo Medina defending 34:38 Jonathan Gradit defending 36:27 Kevin Danso defending 37:55 4-2-3-1 38:54 Jean-Louis Leca 39:40 Wuilker Fariñez 40:05 Brice Samba goalkeeping 41:43 Conclusion Support us and gain access to bonus videos:   / holdingmidfield   Twitter:   / askewjt   Facebook:   / holdingmidfield