Lens 1-3 Le Mans: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 8 December 2007

Result

Lens 1-3 Le Mans

Ligue 1 · Saturday 8 December 2007, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Lens 1-3 Le Mans: match report

Lens lost to Le Mans 1-3 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 8 December 2007. The half-time score was 1-1.

Túlio de Melo opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. Lens's goal came from Aruna Dindane (45'). Le Mans scored through Túlio de Melo (23'), Gervinho (50') and Anthony Le Tallec (89').

Discipline: Lens received no yellow cards; Le Mans received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Lens were 12th on 20 points from 16 and Le Mans 4th on 26 points from 16. Lens went on to finish that season 18th with 40 points, and Le Mans 9th with 53.

Lens lined up in a 4-3-2-1 and Le Mans in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Lens wins, 2 draws and 0 for Le Mans.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 23'Goal · Túlio de MeloLe Mans · 0-1
  • 45'Goal · Aruna DindaneLens · 1-1
  • 50'Goal · GervinhoLe Mans · 1-2
  • 62'Yellow card · Hassan YebdaLe Mans
  • 89'Goal · Anthony Le TallecLe Mans · 1-3

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Lens 2, draws 2, Le Mans 0.

Team news

Lens line-up (4-3-2-1)

Vedran Runje, Adama Coulibaly, Kader Mangane, Fabien Laurenti, Lucien Aubey, Milan Biševac, Olivier Monterrubio, Sidi Keita, Jonathan Lacourt, Aruna Dindane, Yohan Demont

Le Mans expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Yohann Pelé, Ibrahima Camara, Marko Baša, Gregory Cerdan, Jean Calve, Romaric, Mathieu Coutadeur, Stéphane Sessègnon, Túlio de Melo, Gervinho, Anthony Le Tallec