Lorient 2-1 Lens: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 14 March 2026
Result
Lorient 2-1 Lens
Ligue 1 · Saturday 14 March 2026, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Lorient 2-1 Lens: match report
Lorient won against Lens 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 14 March 2026. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Bamba Dieng opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Lorient's goals came from Bamba Dieng (18') and Aiyegun Tosin (65'). Lens scored through Odsonne Édouard (48').
Discipline: Lorient received 2 yellow cards; Lens received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Lorient were 10th on 34 points from 25 and Lens 2nd on 56 points from 25. Lorient went on to finish that season 9th with 45 points, and Lens 2nd with 70.
Lorient lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Lens in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Florian Thauvin of Lens (8.0), ahead of Mamadou Sangaré (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Lorient win, 3 draws and 6 for Lens.
Going into the match Lorient's last five read D-D-D-W-L and Lens's W-D-L-W-W.
Key events
- 18'Goal · Bamba Dieng
- 23'Yellow card · Nidal Celik
- 26'Yellow card · Abdoulaye Faye
- 48'Goal · Odsonne Édouard
- 54'Yellow card · Montassar Talbi
- 65'Goal · Aiyegun Tosin
- 65'Yellow card · Ismaëlo Ganiou
- 75'Yellow card · Saud Abdulhamid
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Régis Gurtner
- Kyllian Antonio
- Samson Baidoo
- Ruben Aguilar
- Allan Saint-Maximin
- Laurent Abergel
- Wesley Saïd
- Arthur Masuaku
- Igor Silva
- Mohamed Bamba
Lorient line-up (3-4-2-1)
Yvon Mvogo, Bamo Meïté, Montassar Talbi, Abdoulaye Faye, Théo Le Bris, Noah Cadiou, Arthur Avom, Arsène Kouassi, Jean-Victor Makengo, Karim Dermane, Bamba Dieng
Lens line-up (3-4-2-1)
Robin Risser, Nidal Celik, Ismaëlo Ganiou, Malang Sarr, Saud Abdulhamid, Mamadou Sangaré, Adrien Thomasson, Matthieu Udol, Florian Thauvin, Abdallah Sima, Odsonne Édouard