Lens 2-1 Rennes: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 27 August 2022

Result

Lens 2-1 Rennes

Ligue 1 · Saturday 27 August 2022, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Lens 2-1 Rennes: match report

Lens beat Rennes 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 27 August 2022. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Seko Fofana opened the scoring in the 66th minute. Lens's goals came from Seko Fofana (66') and Loïs Openda (70'). Rennes scored through Gaëtan Laborde (90+1').

Discipline: Lens received no yellow cards; Rennes received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Lens were 2nd on 7 points from 3 and Rennes 11th on 4 points from 3. Lens went on to finish that season 2nd with 84 points, and Rennes 4th with 68.

Lens lined up in a 3-4-3 and Rennes in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Seko Fofana of Lens (8.2), ahead of Jonathan Gradit (8.1).

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 43'Yellow card · D. DouéRennes
  • 66'Goal · Seko FofanaLens · 1-0
  • 70'Goal · Loïs OpendaLens · 2-0
  • 90+1'Goal · Gaëtan LabordeRennes · 2-1

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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Lens line-up (3-4-3)

Brice Samba, Jonathan Gradit, Kevin Danso, Facundo Medina, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Salis Abdul Samed, Seko Fofana, Deiver Machado, Florian Sotoca, Loïs Openda, David Da Costa

Rennes line-up (4-3-3)

Doğan Alemdar, Hamari Traoré, Joe Rodon, Arthur Theate, Adrien Truffert, Désiré Doué, Baptiste Santamaria, Flavien Tait, Jérémy Doku, Martin Terrier, Benjamin Bourigeaud