Saint-Étienne 1-4 Lens: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 2 May 2010

Result

Saint-Étienne 1-4 Lens

Ligue 1 · Sunday 2 May 2010, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Saint-Étienne 1-4 Lens: match report

Saint-Étienne were beaten by Lens 1-4 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 2 May 2010. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Pape Diakhaté opened the scoring in the 44th minute. Saint-Étienne's goal came from Pape Diakhaté (44'). Lens scored through Kanga Akale (55'), Issam Jemâa (60'), Toifilou Maoulida (83') and Toifilou Maoulida (90').

Discipline: Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards; Lens received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 17th on 36 points from 34 and Lens 15th on 38 points from 34. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 17th with 40 points, and Lens 14th with 46.

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

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Saint-Étienne wins, 1 draw and 3 for Lens.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Yellow card · Pape DiakhatéSaint-Étienne
  • 32'Yellow card · Samba SowLens
  • 44'Goal · Pape DiakhatéSaint-Étienne · 1-0
  • 54'Yellow card · Blaise MatuidiSaint-Étienne
  • 55'Goal · Kanga AkaleLens · 1-1
  • 60'Goal · Issam JemâaLens · 1-2
  • 67'Yellow card · Alaeddine YahiaLens
  • 83'Goal · Toifilou MaoulidaLens · 1-3
  • 90'Goal · Toifilou MaoulidaLens · 1-4

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Saint-Étienne 3, draws 1, Lens 3.

Team news

Saint-Étienne expected line-up (4-3-3)

Jérémie Janot, Yohan Benalouane, Mouhamadou Dabo, Dimitri Payet, Gelson Fernandes, Guirane N'Daw, Gonzalo Bergessio, Kevin Mirallas, Pape Malick Diakhaté, Blaise Matuidi, Emmanuel Rivière

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

Vedran Runje, Marco Ramos, Alaeddine Yahia, Adil Hermach, Sébastien Roudet, Kanga Akale, Kévin Monnet-Paquet, Issam Jemâa, Éric Chelle, Yohan Demont, Nenad Kovacevic