Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Lens: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 30 October 2021

Result

Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Lens

Ligue 1 · Saturday 30 October 2021, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Lens: match report

Olympique Lyonnais won against Lens 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 30 October 2021. The half-time score was 2-0.

Karl Toko Ekambi opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Karl Toko Ekambi (25', penalty) and Houssem Aouar (41'). Lens scored through A. Kalimuendo (61').

Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received 1 yellow card; Lens received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 9th on 16 points from 11 and Lens 3rd on 21 points from 11. Olympique Lyonnais went on to finish that season 7th with 62 points, and Lens 8th with 62.

Olympique Lyonnais lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Lens in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Anthony Lopes of Olympique Lyonnais (8.1), ahead of Jérôme Boateng (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Olympique Lyonnais wins, 1 draw and 2 for Lens.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Yellow card · Lucas PaquetáOlympique Lyonnais
  • 25'Penalty goal · Karl Toko EkambiOlympique Lyonnais · 1-0
  • 38'Yellow card · Florian SotocaLens
  • 41'Goal · Houssem AouarOlympique Lyonnais · 2-0
  • 54'Yellow card · Jonathan ClaussLens
  • 61'Goal · A. KalimuendoLens · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Olympique Lyonnais 7, draws 1, Lens 2.

Team news

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Olympique Lyonnais line-up (4-2-3-1)

Anthony Lopes, Léo Dubois, Jérôme Boateng, Jason Denayer, Emerson, Maxence Caqueret, Bruno Guimarães, Xherdan Shaqiri, Houssem Aouar, Karl Toko Ekambi, Lucas Paquetá

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

Jean-Louis Leca, Jonathan Gradit, Kevin Danso, Facundo Medina, Jonathan Clauss, Cheick Doucouré, Seko Fofana, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Florian Sotoca, Wesley Saïd, Arnaud Kalimuendo