Auxerre 1-2 Lens: result and report

Ligue 2 · Saturday 6 October 2018

Result

Auxerre 1-2 Lens

Ligue 2 · Saturday 6 October 2018, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Auxerre · Lens · Ligue 2 predictions

Auxerre 1-2 Lens: match report

Auxerre were beaten by Lens 1-2 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 6 October 2018. It was 0-1 at half-time.

T. Ambrose opened the scoring in the 38th minute. Auxerre's goal came from Jordan Adéoti (50'). Lens scored through T. Ambrose (38') and Grejohn Kyei (81').

Discipline: Auxerre received 2 yellow cards; Lens received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Auxerre were 18th on 7 points from 9 and Lens 4th on 20 points from 9. Auxerre went on to finish that season 15th with 41 points, and Lens 5th with 65.

Auxerre lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Lens in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Yannick Gomis of Lens (8.1), ahead of Jordan Adeoti (7.5).

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

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 38'Goal · T. AmbroseLens · 0-1
  • 50'Goal · Jordan AdéotiAuxerre · 1-1
  • 56'Yellow card · R. PhilippoteauxAuxerre
  • 65'Yellow card · Jordan AdéotiAuxerre
  • 73'Yellow card · Massadio HaidaraLens
  • 81'Goal · Grejohn KyeiLens · 1-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Auxerre 2, draws 1, Lens 7.

Team news

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

Mathieu Michel, Carlens Arcus, François Bellugou, Jean Marcelin, Samuel Souprayen, Jordan Adeoti, Birama Touré, Michaël Barreto, Billy Ketkeophomphone, Romain Philippoteaux, Yanis Merdji

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

Jean-Louis Leca, Fabien Centonze, M. Tahrat, Aleksandar Radovanovic, Massadio Haïdara, Cheick Doucouré, El-Hadji Ba, Achraf Bencharki, Walid Mesloub, Thierry Ambrose, Yannick Gomis