Lens 3-1 Nantes: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 19 February 2023

Result

Lens 3-1 Nantes

Ligue 1 · Sunday 19 February 2023, 16:05 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Lens 3-1 Nantes: match report

Lens won against Nantes 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 19 February 2023. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Deiver Machado opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Lens's goals came from Deiver Machado (34'), Adrien Thomasson (36') and an own goal by C. Traoré (74'). Nantes scored through Florent Mollet (40').

Neither side received a card.

Going into the game Lens were 4th on 46 points from 23 and Nantes 13th on 28 points from 23. Lens went on to finish that season 2nd with 84 points, and Nantes 16th with 36.

Lens lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Nantes in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Deiver Machado of Lens (8.4), ahead of Jonathan Gradit (8.2).

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 34'Goal · Deiver MachadoLens · 1-0
  • 36'Goal · Adrien ThomassonLens · 2-0
  • 40'Goal · Florent MolletNantes · 2-1
  • 74'Own goal · C. TraoréLens · 3-1

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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

Brice Samba, Jonathan Gradit, Kevin Danso, Facundo Medina, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Salis Abdul Samed, Seko Fofana, Deiver Machado, Adrien Thomasson, Angelo Fulgini, Florian Sotoca

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

Alban Lafont, João Victor, Andrei Girotto, Charles Traoré, Sébastien Corchia, Moussa Sissoko, Samuel Moutoussamy, Jaouen Hadjam, Florent Mollet, Mostafa Mohamed, Moses Simon