Nantes 3-1 Lens: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 23 February 2025

Result

Nantes 3-1 Lens

Ligue 1 · Sunday 23 February 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Nantes 3-1 Lens: match report

Nantes defeated Lens 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 23 February 2025. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Louis Leroux opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Nantes's goals came from Louis Leroux (36'), Moses Simon (60', penalty) and Meschack Elia (90+5'). Lens scored through Neil El Aynaoui (65', penalty).

Discipline: Nantes received 2 yellow cards; Lens received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Nantes were 15th on 21 points from 22 and Lens 8th on 33 points from 22. Nantes went on to finish that season 13th with 36 points, and Lens 8th with 52.

Nantes lined up in a 4-3-3 and Lens in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Louis Leroux of Nantes (7.7), level with Meschack Elia (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nantes win, 4 draws and 5 for Lens.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 28'Yellow card · Jonathan GraditLens
  • 36'Goal · Louis LerouxNantes · 1-0
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Facundo MedinaLens
  • 58'Yellow card · Kelvin AmianNantes
  • 60'Penalty goal · Moses SimonNantes · 2-0
  • 65'Penalty goal · Neil El AynaouiLens · 2-1
  • 66'Yellow card · Adrien ThomassonLens
  • 70'Red card · M'Bala NzolaLens
  • 82'Yellow card · Anthony LopesNantes
  • 90+5'Goal · Meschack EliaNantes · 3-1
  • 90+8'Yellow card · Angelo FulginiLens

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nantes 1, draws 4, Lens 5.

Team news

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Nantes line-up (4-3-3)

Anthony Lopes, Kelvin Amian, Saïdou Sow, Jean-Charles Castelletto, Nicolas Pallois, Johann Lepenant, Douglas Augusto, Louis Leroux, Matthis Abline, Mostafa Mohamed, Moses Simon

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

Mathew Ryan, Ruben Aguilar, Jonathan Gradit, Malang Sarr, Facundo Medina, Neil El Aynaoui, Andy Diouf, Goduine Koyalipou, Adrien Thomasson, Anass Zaroury, Wesley Saïd