After finishing 5th of D2 Feminine last season, the LOSC women's team, formed in 2015 from the merger with Templemars, is currently leading the second division of the French league. A accession to the D1 already in your pocket? It is not so. A leading position - yet synonymous with "promoted" - acquired in mid-season, that the coach and the players take back and parsimoniously. The club wants to be cautious about this, as Jeremie Descamps, the coach of the women's section told us in an interview. Who is the LOSC today? Focus.

Between two weights and two measures

Just like the two promoted last season (Bordeaux and Marseille), Lille is a team that goes up, but does not want to grill the stages. The club has goals achievable each season to consolidate his group, for the accession to D1, which remains unsurprisingly in the line of fire.

8 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat at the beginning of the season, give a certain image of the goal of the club nordiste, who wants above all "to play the top of the table but the rise is not an objective of club established, it is was continued in our momentum "as revealed by Jérémie Descamps. Midway through this 2016/2017 exercise, the women occupy the top of the D2 championship standings, with 26 points on the clock and five steps ahead of these challengers, Arras, Rouen and La Roche-sur-Yon. The Lille have been very successful at home against Arras (1-0), Rouen (6-0), Caen (4-0), VGA Saint-Maur (2-0), Brest (2-0) and Saint -Malo (7-0) and have not conceded a goal at home. A report that can therefore suggest a continuity in the continuation of this 2016/2017 season and a plausible promotion in D1 Feminine. But with lucidity and pragmatism, the coach knows that it remains brittle, fragile, that "it can switch to a few things, a match", so we must maintain the level of requirement! Vigilant is the key word of the North club, which knows that the season is still long and that the difficulty will intensify now. Expected at the turn, the LOSC will have to hold on, without putting the pressure to keep the lead of this championship and thus pass a level, that of the elite of French Football.

Keep the course against the underdogs

Just like Marseille or Bordeaux, the LOSC is eagerly awaited in D1 Feminine - as we told Corine Petit of Olympique Lyonnais - firmly by all the "big" clubs, in particular. To do so, the women's team will have to redouble efforts in this year 2017, not to lose its lead so hard won. The club Lille can boast of having the best defense of the championship with only 4 goals conceded and the best attack by the same, since 36 goals were scored by the Lille. This allows LOSC to have the most prolific attack of the two groups of D2 combined. In addition, at the beginning of the season, the club has had only one loss against La Roche, before rebounding when they enter the competition in the Coupe de France against Bully Mines, 7-0.

And as a stroke of luck, the two leaders of the D2 Feminine Group A and Group B, will meet in the Coupe de France this Sunday, January 8 at the Domaine de Luchin to have the final word and probably set the tone of following their respective seasons. The Lille will have to replicate the success of the U19 young LOSC, who beat 3-1 U19 Val d'Orge to complete the loop and build confidence for the future. The club nordiste also counts enormously on its formation for the future and the consolidation of the project around the female section "you have to be able to live with your pool [of players] and the training is very important" says Descamps. A training that also pays the A, since two Lille, Floriane Azem and Jessica Lernon were called in Team B France for an internship in Clairefontaine full course, last October. A project that begins to pay, after only two years of existence.

The club seems well left to access the upper floor, while remaining more than prudent, because in football, sometimes nothing is played in advance. To learn more, we interviewed the coach of the women's section Jérémie Descamps.