Saint-Étienne 2-0 Lens: result and report

Ligue 1 · Wednesday 9 April 2008

Result

Saint-Étienne 2-0 Lens

Ligue 1 · Wednesday 9 April 2008, 16:30 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Saint-Étienne 2-0 Lens: match report

Saint-Étienne won against Lens 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Wednesday 9 April 2008. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Bafétimbi Gomis opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Saint-Étienne's goals came from Bafétimbi Gomis (13') and Bafétimbi Gomis (15'). Lens did not score.

Discipline: Saint-Étienne received no yellow cards; Lens received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 9th on 43 points from 31 and Lens 16th on 35 points from 31. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 5th with 58 points, and Lens 18th with 40.

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

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

Going into the match Saint-Étienne's last five read W-W-D-L-D and Lens's D-L-D-L-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Bafétimbi GomisSaint-Étienne · 1-0
  • 15'Goal · Bafétimbi GomisSaint-Étienne · 2-0
  • 56'Yellow card · Nenad KovacevicLens
  • 58'Yellow card · Julien SabléLens

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Saint-Étienne 2, draws 1, Lens 2.

Team news

Saint-Étienne line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jody Viviani, Stathis Tavlaridis, Mouhamadou Dabo, Loïc Perrin, Moustapha Bayal Sall, Dimitri Payet, Geoffrey Dernis, Pascal Feindouno, Christophe Landrin, Bafétimbi Gomis, Blaise Matuidi

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

Vedran Runje, Marco Ramos, Adama Coulibaly, Kader Mangane, Fabien Laurenti, Toifilou Maoulida, Kévin Monnet-Paquet, Vitorino Hilton, Nenad Kovacevic, Yohan Demont, Julien Sable