Lens 2-0 Saint-Étienne: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 3 October 2020
Result
Lens 2-0 Saint-Étienne
Ligue 1 · Saturday 3 October 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Lens 2-0 Saint-Étienne: match report
Lens defeated Saint-Étienne 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 3 October 2020. The half-time score was 1-0.
Gaël Kakuta opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Lens's goals came from Gaël Kakuta (15', penalty) and Florian Sotoca (81'). Saint-Étienne did not score.
Discipline: Lens received 1 yellow card; Saint-Étienne received 1 yellow card and 2 red cards.
Going into the game Lens were 7th on 10 points from 5 and Saint-Étienne 5th on 10 points from 5. Lens went on to finish that season 7th with 57 points, and Saint-Étienne 11th with 46.
Lens lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Saint-Étienne in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jonathan Clauss of Lens (8.0), ahead of Facundo Medina (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Lens wins, 2 draws and 4 for Saint-Étienne.
Going into the match Lens's last five read D-W-W-W-L and Saint-Étienne's L-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 14'Red card · Timothée Kolodziejczak
- 15'Penalty goal · Gaël Kakuta
- 64'Yellow card · Yvann Maçon
- 64'Red card · Wahbi Khazri
- 67'Yellow card · Gaël Kakuta
- 81'Goal · Florian Sotoca
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Mathieu Debuchy
- Issiaga Sylla
- Charles Abi
- Anthony Modeste
- Seko Fofana
- Cheick Traoré
- Charles Boli
- Clément Michelin
Lens line-up (3-4-1-2)
Jean-Louis Leca, Jonathan Gradit, Loïc Badé, Facundo Medina, Jonathan Clauss, Yannick Cahuzac, Cheick Doucouré, Massadio Haïdara, Gaël Kakuta, Ignatius Ganago, Florian Sotoca
Saint-Étienne line-up (4-1-4-1)
Jessy Moulin, Alpha Sissoko, Harold Moukoudi, Timothée Kolodziejczak, Yvann Maçon, Yvan Neyou, Arnaud Nordin, Mahdi Camara, Adil Aouchiche, Maxence Rivera, Denis Bouanga