Thanks to Banza, RC Lens can revise their goals upwards.

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  • RC Lens beat Olympique de Marseille 1-0 on Wednesday night at the Stade Vélodrome in a late match for the 9th day of Ligue 1.

  • Thanks to this success, the Lensois are now 7th and the maintenance seems already assured.

At the Velodrome stadium,

The initial objective is about to be fulfilled.

The Lens Racing club created a surprise Wednesday night by winning, quite quietly, 1-0 against Olympique de Marseille at the Stade Vélodrome.

Dominating throughout the match, the bloods and golds scored the only goal of the game just before the hour mark thanks to Banza, and were never really worried.

“It's good to know the victory.

It's the ninth of the season, the more the better.

Especially against a big club, and with the manner.

That's what I remember ”, savored Franck Haise.

A victory all the more tasty for Steven Fortes, native of Marseille.

“It's clear that this is a prestigious victory on which there is nothing to complain about.

Winning at the Vélodrome, even empty, is always a prestigious victory ”.

"Continue to define goals"

Above all, it allows Lens to return to 7th place in the standings with 31 points, after a draw and two defeats since the start of the season.

“We stayed in three games without a win, but there were good things to remember.

We never panicked and we kept our serenity ", explained Steven Fortes, while admitting not to look at the classification more than that:" I just know that the maintenance is getting closer, and it is always our objective " .

Franck Haise looks at him: “Yes, the maintenance is becoming clearer, we must continue to play, to be solid, and to make the efforts on a daily basis.

That's what my players do, we enjoy ourselves 99% of the time in training ”.

The objective of the beginning of the year, maintenance, could even be revised upwards.

“We have 31 points after 20 days, it's quite comfortable.

By the quality of the work and the investment we can continue to define objectives while being ambitious in our state of mind and our game, ”he hopes.

Lens will host Nice, in bad shape, Saturday at 5 p.m. for the 21st day of Ligue 1.

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