Monaco 1-4 Lens: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 20 August 2022

Result

Monaco 1-4 Lens

Ligue 1 · Saturday 20 August 2022, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Monaco 1-4 Lens: match report

Monaco lost to Lens 1-4 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 20 August 2022. The half-time score was 1-2.

Loïs Openda opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Monaco's goal came from Benoît Badiashile (41'). Lens scored through Loïs Openda (7'), Deiver Machado (38'), Seko Fofana (55', penalty) and Wesley Saïd (78').

Discipline: Monaco received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card; Lens received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Monaco were 7th on 4 points from 2 and Lens 6th on 4 points from 2. Monaco went on to finish that season 6th with 65 points, and Lens 2nd with 84.

Monaco lined up in a 4-4-2 and Lens in a 3-4-2-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Monaco wins, 4 draws and 3 for Lens.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Loïs OpendaLens · 0-1
  • 38'Goal · Deiver MachadoLens · 0-2
  • 40'Yellow card · Breel EmboloMonaco
  • 41'Yellow card · Philippe ClementMonaco
  • 41'Goal · Benoît BadiashileMonaco · 1-2
  • 55'Penalty goal · Seko FofanaLens · 1-3
  • 58'Yellow card · VandersonMonaco
  • 68'Yellow card · Wissam Ben YedderMonaco
  • 72'Second yellow · VandersonMonaco
  • 72'Yellow card · VandersonMonaco
  • 78'Goal · Wesley SaïdLens · 1-4

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Monaco 3, draws 4, Lens 3.

Team news

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Monaco line-up (4-4-2)

Alexander Nübel, Vanderson, Axel Disasi, Benoît Badiashile, Caio Henrique, Krépin Diatta, Eliot Matazo, Jean Lucas, Takumi Minamino, Breel Embolo, Wissam Ben Yedder

Lens line-up (3-4-2-1)

Brice Samba, Jonathan Gradit, Kevin Danso, Facundo Medina, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Salis Abdul Samed, Seko Fofana, Deiver Machado, Florian Sotoca, David Da Costa, Loïs Openda