Le Mans 3-2 Lens: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 26 April 2008
Result
Le Mans 3-2 Lens
Ligue 1 · Saturday 26 April 2008, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Le Mans 3-2 Lens: match report
Le Mans won against Lens 3-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 26 April 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Ronnie Kanalelo opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Le Mans's goals came from Ronnie Kanalelo (20'), Ronnie Kanalelo (25') and Marko Baša (49'). Lens scored through Aruna Dindane (34') and K. Monnet-Paquet (84').
Discipline: Le Mans received 2 yellow cards; Lens received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Le Mans were 8th on 48 points from 34 and Lens 17th on 38 points from 34. Le Mans went on to finish that season 9th with 53 points, and Lens 18th with 40.
Le Mans lined up in a 4-5-1 and Lens in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Le Mans win, 2 draws and 2 for Lens.
Going into the match Le Mans's last five read D-W-L-D-D and Lens's W-L-L-D-L.
Key events
- 14'Yellow card · Kader Mangane
- 20'Goal · Ronnie Kanalelo
- 25'Goal · Ronnie Kanalelo
- 34'Goal · Aruna Dindane
- 39'Yellow card · Samuel Bouhours
- 43'Yellow card · Romaric
- 49'Goal · Marko Baša
- 59'Yellow card · Aruna Dindane
- 84'Goal · K. Monnet-Paquet
Head-to-head
Team news
Le Mans expected line-up (4-5-1)
Yohann Pelé, Marko Baša, Jean Calve, Gregory Cerdan, Mathieu Coutadeur, Romaric, Túlio de Melo, Gervinho, Anthony Le Tallec
Lens line-up (4-5-1)
Vedran Runje, Adama Coulibaly, Kader Mangane, Milan Biševac, Eric Carriere, Nadir Belhadj, Olivier Monterrubio, Jonathan Lacourt, Abdoulrazak Boukari Fafadji, Aruna Dindane, Vitorino Hilton