Valenciennes 3-1 Lorient: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 23 August 2008

Result

Valenciennes 3-1 Lorient

Ligue 1 · Saturday 23 August 2008, 17:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Valenciennes 3-1 Lorient: match report

Valenciennes beat Lorient 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 23 August 2008. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Grégory Pujol opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Valenciennes's goals came from Grégory Pujol (3'), Johan Audel (32') and Luigi Pieroni (89'). Lorient scored through Kévin Gameiro (51').

Discipline: Valenciennes received 2 yellow cards; Lorient received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Valenciennes were 13th on 3 points from 2 and Lorient 5th on 4 points from 2. Valenciennes went on to finish that season 12th with 44 points, and Lorient 10th with 45.

Valenciennes lined up in a 4-4-2 and Lorient in a 4-4-2.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Grégory PujolValenciennes · 1-0
  • 32'Goal · Johan AudelValenciennes · 2-0
  • 51'Goal · Kévin GameiroLorient · 2-1
  • 53'Yellow card · M. BiševacValenciennes
  • 79'Yellow card · J. MorelLorient
  • 86'Yellow card · Rafael SchmitzValenciennes
  • 89'Goal · Luigi PieroniValenciennes · 3-1

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Valenciennes 2, draws 1, Lorient 1.

Team news

Valenciennes expected line-up (4-4-2)

Nicolas Penneteau, Guillaume Rippert, Mody Traoré, Carlos Sánchez, Sébastien Roudet, Johan Audel, Jeovânio, Steve Savidan, Éric Chelle, A. Ouaddou, Geoffrey Doumeng

Lorient expected line-up (4-4-2)

Fabien Audard, Christophe Jallet, Sylvain Marchal, Jérémy Morel, Fabrice Abriel, Yazid Mansouri, Yohan Hautcoeur, Yann Jouffre, Rafik Saifi, Mickaël Ciani