Lens 2-0 Sochaux: result and report
Ligue 2 · Saturday 15 September 2018
Result
Lens 2-0 Sochaux
Ligue 2 · Saturday 15 September 2018, 13:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Lens 2-0 Sochaux: match report
Lens beat Sochaux 2-0 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 15 September 2018. The half-time score was 1-0.
Y. Gomis opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Lens's goals came from Y. Gomis (15') and Walid Mesloub (63'). Sochaux did not score.
Discipline: Lens received 2 yellow cards; Sochaux received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Lens were 5th on 12 points from 5 and Sochaux 11th on 9 points from 6. Lens went on to finish that season 5th with 65 points, and Sochaux 16th with 41.
Lens lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sochaux in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Walid Mesloub of Lens (8.3), ahead of Yannick Gomis (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Lens wins, 2 draws and 5 for Sochaux.
Going into the match Lens's last five read L-W-W-W-W and Sochaux's W-L-W-W-L.
Key events
- 15'Goal · Y. Gomis
- 43'Yellow card · C. Doucouré
- 48'Yellow card · Olivier Verdon
- 57'Yellow card · Thomas Robinet
- 63'Goal · Walid Mesloub
- 78'Yellow card · Massadio Haidara
Head-to-head
Team news
Lens line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jean-Louis Leca, Arial Mendy, M. Tahrat, Aleksandar Radovanovic, Massadio Haïdara, El-Hadji Ba, Cheick Doucouré, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, Walid Mesloub, Thierry Ambrose, Yannick Gomis
Sochaux line-up (4-3-3)
Maxence Prévot, Salem M'Bakata, Olivier Verdon, Rafael Paez, Josema, Sofiane Daham, Elisha Owusu, Madger Gomes, Nando, Pylyp Budkivskyi, Abdoulaye Sane