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

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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.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Goal · Y. GomisLens · 1-0
  • 43'Yellow card · C. DoucouréLens
  • 48'Yellow card · Olivier VerdonSochaux
  • 57'Yellow card · Thomas RobinetSochaux
  • 63'Goal · Walid MesloubLens · 2-0
  • 78'Yellow card · Massadio HaidaraLens

Head-to-head

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

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