Lens 2-1 Nancy: result and report

Ligue 2 · Saturday 19 January 2019

Result

Lens 2-1 Nancy

Ligue 2 · Saturday 19 January 2019, 13:55 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Lens 2-1 Nancy: match report

Lens beat Nancy 2-1 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 19 January 2019. The half-time score was 0-1.

A. Bassi opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Lens's goals came from A. Bencharki (56') and A. Bencharki (73'). Nancy scored through A. Bassi (35', penalty).

Discipline: Lens received 1 yellow card; Nancy received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Lens were 6th on 32 points from 20 and Nancy 20th on 13 points from 19. Lens went on to finish that season 5th with 65 points, and Nancy 14th with 42.

Lens lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Nancy in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Achraf Bencharki of Lens (9.5), ahead of Yannick Gomis (7.8).

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

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Yellow card · V. MuratoriNancy
  • 35'Penalty goal · A. BassiNancy · 0-1
  • 56'Goal · A. BencharkiLens · 1-1
  • 70'Yellow card · E. SekaNancy
  • 73'Goal · A. BencharkiLens · 2-1
  • 76'Second yellow · E. SekaNancy
  • 76'Yellow card · El-Hadji BaLens

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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

Jean-Louis Leca, Fabien Centonze, Seif Teka, Modibo Sagnan, Massadio Haïdara, El-Hadji Ba, Guillaume Gillet, Mouaad Madri, Walid Mesloub, Mounir Chouiar, Achraf Bencharki

Nancy line-up (4-1-4-1)

Sergey Chernik, Sega Coulibaly, Ernest Seka, Vincent Muratori, Loris Néry, Laurent Abergel, Alexis Busin, Amine Bassi, Vincent Marchetti, Malaly Dembélé, Vágner Dias