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
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.
Key events
- 11'Yellow card · Pape Diakhaté
- 32'Yellow card · Samba Sow
- 44'Goal · Pape Diakhaté
- 54'Yellow card · Blaise Matuidi
- 55'Goal · Kanga Akale
- 60'Goal · Issam Jemâa
- 67'Yellow card · Alaeddine Yahia
- 83'Goal · Toifilou Maoulida
- 90'Goal · Toifilou Maoulida
Head-to-head
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