Lens 5-2 Lorient: result and report

Ligue 1 · Wednesday 31 August 2022

Result

Lens 5-2 Lorient

Ligue 1 · Wednesday 31 August 2022, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Lens 5-2 Lorient: match report

Lens beat Lorient 5-2 in Ligue 1 on Wednesday 31 August 2022. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Florian Sotoca opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Lens's goals came from Florian Sotoca (24'), Wesley Saïd (28'), Salis Abdul Samed (57'), Florian Sotoca (77') and Loïs Openda (86'). Lorient scored through Terem Moffi (41') and Terem Moffi (50').

Discipline: Lens received 1 yellow card; Lorient received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Lens were 3rd on 10 points from 4 and Lorient 6th on 7 points from 3. Lens went on to finish that season 2nd with 84 points, and Lorient 10th with 55.

Lens lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Lorient in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Florian Sotoca of Lens (9.1), ahead of David Da Costa (8.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Lens wins, 3 draws and 5 for Lorient.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 24'Goal · Florian SotocaLens · 1-0
  • 28'Goal · Wesley SaïdLens · 2-0
  • 41'Goal · Terem MoffiLorient · 2-1
  • 50'Goal · Terem MoffiLorient · 2-2
  • 57'Goal · Salis Abdul SamedLens · 3-2
  • 58'Yellow card · Dango OuattaraLorient
  • 60'Yellow card · Laurent AbergelLorient
  • 63'Yellow card · Jonathan GraditLens
  • 63'Yellow card · Terem MoffiLorient
  • 77'Goal · Florian SotocaLens · 4-2
  • 86'Goal · Loïs OpendaLens · 5-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Lens 2, draws 3, Lorient 5.

Team news

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

Brice Samba, Jonathan Gradit, Kevin Danso, Facundo Medina, Jimmy Cabot, Salis Abdul Samed, Lukasz Poreba, Deiver Machado, Wesley Saïd, Florian Sotoca, David Da Costa

Lorient line-up (4-3-3)

Yvon Mvogo, Gédéon Kalulu, Julien Laporte, Montassar Talbi, Vincent Le Goff, Théo Le Bris, Laurent Abergel, Enzo Le Fée, Stéphane Diarra, Terem Moffi, Dango Ouattara