Lens 2-1 Châteauroux: result and report

Ligue 2 · Monday 2 April 2018

Result

Lens 2-1 Châteauroux

Ligue 2 · Monday 2 April 2018, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Lens 2-1 Châteauroux: match report

Lens defeated Châteauroux 2-1 in Ligue 2 on Monday 2 April 2018. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Walid Mesloub opened the scoring in the 38th minute. Lens's goals came from Walid Mesloub (38') and Souleymane Diarra (62'). Châteauroux scored through Christophe Mandanne (88').

Discipline: Lens received 2 yellow cards; Châteauroux received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Lens were 16th on 31 points from 30 and Châteauroux 7th on 51 points from 30. Lens went on to finish that season 14th with 43 points, and Châteauroux 9th with 60.

Lens lined up in a 4-3-3 and Châteauroux in a 5-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Souleymane Diarra of Lens (8.1), ahead of Dušan Cvetinović (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Lens wins, 1 draw and 0 for Châteauroux.

Going into the match Lens's last five read L-L-D-L-W and Châteauroux's W-L-W-W-D.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 38'Goal · Walid MesloubLens · 1-0
  • 46'Yellow card · Cyrille BayalaLens
  • 62'Goal · Souleymane DiarraLens · 2-0
  • 68'Yellow card · Grégory BourillonChâteauroux
  • 88'Goal · Christophe MandanneChâteauroux · 2-1
  • 89'Yellow card · C. ChantômeLens

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Lens 0, draws 1, Châteauroux 0.

Team news

Lens line-up (4-3-3)

Jeremy Vachoux, Jean-Kévin Duverne, Dušan Cvetinović, Frederic Duplus, Brice Dja Djédjé, Walid Mesloub, Souleymane Diarra, Clément Chantôme, Cristian Lopez, Abdellah Zoubir, Cyrille Bayala

Châteauroux line-up (5-3-2)

Mouez Hassen, Chaker Alhadhur, Yannick M'Bone, Grégory Bourillon, Gerzino Nyamsi, Cheick Traoré, Sidy Sarr, Sofiane Khadda, Maxime Barthelmé, Oumare Tounkara, Saïd Benrahma