Franck Haise, the Lens coach, expressed his satisfaction after the success brought back by his Strasbourg team (1-0) on Friday, on the occasion of the 7th day of Ligue 1: “Winning away, stringing together a second victory, not conceding a goal for the first time this season, these are already things that will satisfy us even if I know that we could certainly have, or should have, scored this second goal to make it easier for us. task at the end of the match.
The northern coach also returned to the performance of his striker Elye Wahi, the only scorer in the match but who could have doubled the lead: “He was lectured by one or two players and I think they are right. With quality players, you have to be demanding. He knows that he did one very important thing – scored this goal which gave us the victory – but I also know that there are other things on which he must be more efficient. And Franck Haise concludes, looking to the future: “I don’t know if we’re back in any case, which is certain unlike our matches at the start of the season, there are much more coherent things on the duration of a match. In all of the matches, I found a team that looked more like the one it should be.”
For his part, Florian Sotoca, the Lens striker, also commented on this northern victory: “It’s a victory that feels good, the first away, especially our first clean sheet of the season. We wanted to reassure ourselves on this point since we conceded goals in all matches. These are three points which do a lot of good before the Champions League. We are delighted this evening. We scored on our first opportunity. It frees us because I think we had a bit of a complicated start to the match. Here, we know that things are pushing very hard from the start but we have remained very strong. We didn’t concede a lot of chances apart from at the end where Brice (Samba) pulled out all the stops. We could have increased the score in the second half on two or three counter situations but it’s good to know how to win these matches.”