Lens 0-1 Nice: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 23 January 2021

Result

Lens 0-1 Nice

Ligue 1 · Saturday 23 January 2021, 16:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Lens · Nice · Ligue 1 predictions

Lens 0-1 Nice: match report

Lens lost to Nice 0-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 23 January 2021. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Youcef Atal of Nice in the 49th minute.

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

Going into the game Lens were 7th on 31 points from 20 and Nice 14th on 23 points from 19. Lens went on to finish that season 7th with 57 points, and Nice 9th with 52.

Lens lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Nice in a 3-1-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Hicham Boudaoui of Nice (7.8), level with Youcef Atal (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Lens wins, 4 draws and 3 for Nice.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 49'Goal · Youcef AtalNice · 0-1
  • 61'Yellow card · Yannick CahuzacLens
  • 68'Yellow card · Steven FortèsLens
  • 90'Yellow card · Hicham BoudaouiNice

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Lens 3, draws 4, Nice 3.

Team news

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

Jean-Louis Leca, Jonathan Gradit, Steven Fortes, Facundo Medina, Clément Michelin, Yannick Cahuzac, Cheick Doucouré, Ismaël Boura, Gaël Kakuta, Ignatius Ganago, Florian Sotoca

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

Walter Benítez, Flavius Daniliuc, William Saliba, Robson Bambu, Hicham Boudaoui, Youcef Atal, Jeff Reine-Adélaïde, Pierre Lees-Melou, Hassane Kamara, Kasper Dolberg, Amine Gouiri