Clément Lenglet

Clément Nicolas Laurent Lenglet (born 17 June 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Spanish club Barcelona and the France national team.

Clément Lenglet
Lenglet playing for Sevilla in 2017
Personal information
Full name Clément Nicolas Laurent Lenglet[1]
Date of birth (1995-06-17) 17 June 1995[2]
Place of birth Beauvais, France
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[3]
Position(s) Centre-back
Club information
Current team
 Barcelona
Number 15
Youth career
2001–2007 Montchevreuil
2007–2010 Chantilly
2010–2013 Nancy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2014 Nancy B 33 (6)
2013–2017 Nancy 77 (2)
2017–2018 Sevilla 52 (3)
2018– Barcelona 68 (4)
National team‡
2010–2011 France U16 6 (0)
2011–2012 France U17 14 (0)
2012 France U18 3 (0)
2013 France U19 6 (0)
2014 France U20 2 (0)
2015–2016 France U21 10 (0)
2019– France 11 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:56, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 November 2020

Lenglet began his career with Nancy, making 85 appearances from his debut in 2013, and winning the Ligue 2 title in the 2015–16 season. In January 2017, he joined Sevilla for a €5.4 million fee where he went on to make 73 appearances, scoring 4 goals, in an 18-month spell before joining Barcelona for €35 million.

Early life

Lenglet was born in Beauvais, Oise.[4]

Club career

Nancy

Lenglet made his Ligue 2 debut with Nancy on 27 September 2013 in a goalless home draw against AC Arles-Avignon entering the field after 32 minutes for Rémi Walter.

He made 34 appearances over the 2015–16 season as Nancy won the second-division title. He scored his first goal for the team on 29 January 2016, equalising in a 3–1 home win over Clermont.[5] He was sent off on 12 February for conceding a penalty with a foul on Serhou Guirassy in a 2–2 draw at Auxerre.[6] On 25 April, he finished Benoît Pedretti's corner kick for the only goal of a win over Sochaux at the Stade Marcel Picot, winning his team promotion to Ligue 1 after a three-year absence.[7]

In the first half of the 2016–17 season, he made 18 starting appearances in Ligue 1 for Nancy.[8]

Sevilla
Lenglet playing for Sevilla in 2017

On 4 January 2017, Lenglet moved to Spain, signing a deal with La Liga side Sevilla FC until 2021. The transfer fee paid to Nancy was €5 million.[8] He was brought in to replace compatriot Timothée Kolodziejczak, who had joined Borussia Mönchengladbach.[9]

He made his debut for the Andalusians eight days later in a 3–3 home draw with Real Madrid in the last 16 of the 2016–17 Copa del Rey (6–3 aggregate loss).[10] On 15 January he made his league debut against the same opponents in a 2–1 win at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium that ended their 40-match unbeaten run in all competitions.[11] He played 17 of their league fixtures in the second half of the season.

On 19 August 2017, Lenglet scored his first goal for Sevilla, opening a 1–1 home draw against Espanyol in the first game of the new season; whether or not it crossed the line became a matter of controversy after the game.[12] He scored his first goal in European competition on 1 November, heading Éver Banega's cross to open a 2–1 home win against Spartak Moscow in the UEFA Champions League group stage.[13] Having been part of the Sevilla side that kept a clean sheet against Manchester United in the round of 16 first leg, ESPN put Lenglet into their Champions League Best XI.[14]

Barcelona

On 12 July 2018, Lenglet joined Barcelona when they triggered his release clause of €35 million.[15] He played the full 90 minutes for Barcelona as he helped them beat his former club Sevilla 2–1 in the 2018 Supercopa de España. On 23 September, Lenglet was sent off in his La Liga debut against Girona following an elbow on Pere Pons.[16] He scored the winning goal in their Copa del Rey clash against Cultural Leonesa in 1–0 win. He scored his first goal for Barcelona in La Liga against Real Sociedad at the Camp Nou. He provided an assist for compatriot Antoine Griezmann for Barcelona's first goal in a 3–0 win against Eibar away at the Ipurua on 19 October.[17] Lenglet scored his first Champions League goal for the club on 8 August 2020, with a 10th minute header in a 3–1 victory at home against Napoli in Barcelona's round of 16 second leg match.[18]

On 2 December 2020, Lenglet captained Barcelona for the first time after stand-in captain Sergio Busquets was substituted at half time in a Champions League group stage 3–0 victory against Hungarian top-flight club Ferencváros at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest.[19]

International career

On 21 May 2019, Lenglet was called up to the French senior team by Didier Deschamps for a friendly match against Bolivia, and for two UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying games against Andorra and Turkey, all of them to be held in the first half of June 2019.[20] He made his debut in the 4–0 away win over Andorra on 11 June,[21] and scored his first goal in the 3–0 win in the reverse fixture on 10 September.[22]

Personal life

As a boy, Lenglet was a fan of Paris Saint-Germain. Occasionally, his father took him to the Camp des Loges to watch training sessions. Lenglet says he remembers seeing “Ronaldinho, Pauleta, and other big players who made history.”[23][24]

Lenglet's younger brother, Corentin, is a full-back. He transferred from Nancy to Sevilla in the same deal, and spent one season in the C-team in Tercera División.[25]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 3 February 2021[26]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Nancy 2013–14 Ligue 2 300000——30
2014–15 Ligue 2 2202020——260
2015–16 Ligue 2 3421010——362
2016–17 Ligue 1 1800020——200
Total 7723050——852
Sevilla 2016–17 La Liga 17010—10—190
2017–18 La Liga 35380—111—544
Total 52390—121—734
Barcelona 2018–19 La Liga 23191—12010452
2019–20 La Liga 28231—9100404
2020–21 La Liga 17130—6020281
Total 684152—271301137
Career total 1979272503923027113

International
As of match played 11 November 2020[27]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
France 201971
202040
Total111
As of match played 11 November 2020. France score listed first, score column indicates score after each Lenglet goal.[28]
List of international goals scored by Clément Lenglet
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
110 September 2019Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France Andorra2–03–0UEFA Euro 2020 qualification

Honours

Nancy

Barcelona

References
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  6. "À trop se frotter, l'A.J. Auxerre toute proche de se faire piquer par le chardon nancéien" [Rubbing itself too much, A.J. Auxerre got very close to being stung by Nancy's thorn] (in French). Auxerre TV. 13 February 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
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