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Stade de Reims’ defeat to Marseille on the opening day of the season is looking increasingly far away these days and not just because of the World Cup break. Reims’ 3-1 win over Rennes on Thursday night was their eighth match in a row without defeat, a run that has coincided with the installation of Will Still as their manager. Some of the games in that run have been against the league’s lesser lights – and Reims were not majorly disrupted by the World Cup, with only Junya Ito playing in Qatar – but the evidence of the young manager’s positive influence continues apace.

This was always likely to be a challenging season for Reims, with the club’s recent signings being rather hit or miss. Ito has hit the ground running, but players such as Valon Berisha, Anastasios Donis and Kaj Sierhuis have been rather expensive missteps. The club’s academy has produced a decent level of talent, including Hugo Ekitiké, Axel Disasi and Alexis Flips, but a mass exodus in the summer looked to have severely weakened their chances of extending their stay in Ligue 1.

Ekitiké and disgruntled fellow attacker El Bilal Touré had been the keys to the team’s attack, and Wout Faes and goalkeeper Predrag Rajkovic had also been elemental to their play. Even with Ito arriving for a club-record fee, and previous outlays on Azor Matusiwa and Jens Cajuste, Reims looked likely to be facing a challenging season. That may yet be the case, but Still’s arrival has super-charged the side and survival looks more likely by the day.

Born to British parents who emigrated to Belgium before he was born, Still looks to be a very capable manager. The 30-year-old has certainly earned his stripes, having started early and worked his way up to his current position. Playing Football Manager as a teenager convinced him to switch his focus from playing football to coaching it, and he began a course at Myerscough College in Preston. He joined Preston North End at the age of 20, working with the club’s academy players, before he returned to the country of his birth in 2014.

After years of working his way up from being a video assistant, then assistant manager and then caretaker in the Belgian top flight, he joined Reims in 2021 as an assistant to Óscar García. After spending a part of last season back on the sidelines in Belgium with Standard Liège, he returned to Reims at the start of the current campaign, taking over the reins from García in early October. The Spaniard’s dismissal was seen in some quarters as an unfair one – a rash of red cards had been a major factor in Reims’ early results this season, and García later revealed that his young daughter had been suffering from a long-term illness. She died a few weeks after he was sacked.

Reims have definitely improved under Still’s management. The most noticeable change has been in the team’s tactics. While García preferred to play in a 5-3-2, with Folarin Balogun and Ito as a strike partnership, Still has moved to a 4-2-3-1, playing with an aggressive press. This press was on full display against Rennes this week, with Ito and Alexis Flips working doggedly to harry the opposing defence.

This tactical shift has not only unnerved opponents, but it has also made Reims a more dangerous attacking side. They could easily have scored more than three goals against Rennes, as Arbër Zeneli, Ito and Balogun – an Arsenal loanee who has been a revelation with 10 goals to date – all spurned good chances on the counter. Beyond tactics, Still has also made key changes to personnel, dropping Patrick Pentz, who had looked a liability from the off, and bringing in Yehvann Diouf, who has been solid but unspectacular, and playing Emmanuel Agbadou in defence alongside the veteran Yunis Abdelhamid, the Ivorian offering a more composed alternative to Andreaw Gravillon.

Still also provides a deep knowledge of Belgian football – a link that has not been lost on the Reims hierarchy. The club have enjoyed plenty of success buying from that market. Players such as Ito, full-backs Thomas Foket and Thibaut De Smet (now fit and looking a far sharper player than he did a season ago), Agbadou and now-departed fellow defender Faes have been integral to the team’s survival in recent years. Now, the team’s use of Belgian talent on the pitch and on the touchline might be key to pushing the club towards a return to Europe.

Talking points

Paris Saint-Germain looked ripe for the taking against Strasbourg on Wednesday evening. An own goal from Marquinhos piled more misery on the captain after another deflection in the World Cup for Brazil, and Neymar was sent off early in the second half for a dive. But rather than fold, PSG dug deep and pressed for a winner, getting it from none other than Kylian Mbappé, as he won and duly converted a penalty in the 95th minute. Mbappé seemed to reach another gear in the World Cup after a relatively moribund start to the season and, if he continues to play like a man possessed, there’s little the rest of the league can do.

Lyon had minimal involvement in the World Cup and the chance for Laurent Blanc to impart his methods looks to have paid off handsomely. With only Karl Toko Ekambi and Nicolás Tagliafico absent for the six-week break, Lyon have been working hard to build a more unified front in attack and defence. In addition to a switch to a 4-2-3-1, Blanc also doubled down on the team’s connection to its academy, bringing in Rayan Cherki and Corentin Tolisso to the team’s line-up. In all, seven academy products were included from the off against Brest in the team’s 4-2 win, a number not seen since the 2016-17 season, when the team nearly reached the final of the Europa League. Blanc’s newfound Gones movement will face sterner tests in the week to come, but the sense of brotherhood it seems to be fostering has worked thus far.

Finally, Monaco’s academy continues to produce the goods. They beat Auxerre 3-2 on Wednesday, with 17-year-old Eliesse Ben Seghir hitting a second-half double in his first league appearance. He is not the only academy product in the team – Maghnes Akliouche and Benoît Badiashile have also played important roles this season – but he looks like a real talent. La Diagonale – the same academy that produced Kylian Mbappé and Thierry Henry – could well be burnishing another incandescent young attacker.