Lorient 2-1 Sochaux: result and report
Ligue 2 · Friday 8 December 2017
Result
Lorient 2-1 Sochaux
Ligue 2 · Friday 8 December 2017, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Lorient 2-1 Sochaux: match report
Lorient defeated Sochaux 2-1 in Ligue 2 on Friday 8 December 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.
F. Martin opened the scoring in the 55th minute. Lorient's goals came from Denis Bouanga (81') and Lindsay Rose (87'). Sochaux scored through F. Martin (55').
Discipline: Lorient received 2 yellow cards; Sochaux received no yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Lorient were 6th on 29 points from 17 and Sochaux 9th on 27 points from 17. Lorient went on to finish that season 7th with 62 points, and Sochaux 10th with 53.
Lorient lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sochaux in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Florian Martin of Sochaux (8.4), ahead of Jimmy Cabot (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Lorient wins, 4 draws and 4 for Sochaux.
Going into the match Lorient's last five read L-L-W-D-W and Sochaux's W-L-W-D-W.
Key events
- 34'Yellow card · Franklin Wadja
- 55'Goal · F. Martin
- 63'Yellow card · I. Conté
- 81'Goal · Denis Bouanga
- 83'Red card · Adolphe Teikeu
- 87'Goal · Lindsay Rose
Head-to-head
Team news
Lorient line-up (4-2-3-1)
Danijel Petkovic, Lindsay Rose, Ibrahima Conté, Steven Moreira, Vincent Le Goff, Gaël Danic, Sylvain Marveaux, Franklin Wadja, Denis Bouanga, Jimmy Cabot, Pierre-Yves Hamel
Sochaux line-up (4-3-3)
Maxence Prévot, Adolphe Teikeu, Florent Ogier, Mart Ristl, Jason Pendant, Florin Berenguer, Florian Tardieu, El-Hadji Ba, Florian Martin, Yoann Touzghar, Aldo Kalulu