Lens 1-2 Ajaccio: result and report
Ligue 2 · Saturday 22 December 2018
Result
Lens 1-2 Ajaccio
Ligue 2 · Saturday 22 December 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Lens 1-2 Ajaccio: match report
Lens were beaten by Ajaccio 1-2 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 22 December 2018. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Mathieu Coutadeur opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Lens's goal came from Mounir Chouiar (27'). Ajaccio scored through Mathieu Coutadeur (13') and Naoto Sawai (77').
Discipline: Lens received 2 yellow cards; Ajaccio received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Lens were 3rd on 32 points from 18 and Ajaccio 15th on 18 points from 18. Lens went on to finish that season 5th with 65 points, and Ajaccio 17th with 40.
Lens lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Ajaccio in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Mounir Chouiar of Lens (8.1), ahead of Fabien Centonze (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Lens wins, 3 draws and 1 for Ajaccio.
Going into the match Lens's last five read D-W-D-D-L and Ajaccio's W-D-L-D-L.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Mathieu Coutadeur
- 27'Goal · Mounir Chouiar
- 55'Yellow card · El-Hadji Ba
- 73'Yellow card · Ghislain Gimbert
- 77'Goal · Naoto Sawai
- 88'Yellow card · A. Bencharki
- 90'Yellow card · Naoto Sawai
Head-to-head
Team news
Lens line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jean-Louis Leca, Fabien Centonze, M. Tahrat, Modibo Sagnan, Massadio Haïdara, Cheick Doucouré, El-Hadji Ba, Souleymane Diarra, Walid Mesloub, Mounir Chouiar, Yannick Gomis
Ajaccio line-up (4-4-1-1)
Benjamin Leroy, Jérôme Hergault, Yann Boé-Kane, Cédric Avinel, Manuel Cabit, Mohamed Youssouf, Qazim Laci, Mathieu Coutadeur, Kévin Lejeune, Matteo Tramoni, Ghislain Gimbert