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

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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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Red card · Timothée KolodziejczakSaint-Étienne
  • 15'Penalty goal · Gaël KakutaLens · 1-0
  • 64'Yellow card · Yvann MaçonSaint-Étienne
  • 64'Red card · Wahbi KhazriSaint-Étienne
  • 67'Yellow card · Gaël KakutaLens
  • 81'Goal · Florian SotocaLens · 2-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Lens 4, draws 2, Saint-Étienne 4.

Team news

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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