Lens 2-1 Brest: result and report

Ligue 2 · Tuesday 4 December 2018

Result

Lens 2-1 Brest

Ligue 2 · Tuesday 4 December 2018, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Lens 2-1 Brest: match report

Lens beat Brest 2-1 in Ligue 2 on Tuesday 4 December 2018. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Lens's goals came from an own goal by Y. Court (24') and Souleymane Diarra (44'). Brest scored through Richard Wright (85').

Discipline: Lens received 3 yellow cards; Brest received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Lens were 4th on 28 points from 16 and Brest 2nd on 34 points from 16. Lens went on to finish that season 5th with 65 points, and Brest 2nd with 74.

Lens lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Brest in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Souleymane Diarra of Lens (8.5), ahead of Gaëtan Charbonnier (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Lens wins, 3 draws and 4 for Brest.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 24'Own goal · Y. CourtLens · 1-0
  • 26'Yellow card · Haris BelkeblaBrest
  • 44'Goal · Souleymane DiarraLens · 2-0
  • 50'Yellow card · Walid MesloubLens
  • 57'Yellow card · M. TahratLens
  • 62'Yellow card · Souleymane DiarraLens
  • 85'Goal · Richard WrightBrest · 2-1
  • 86'Yellow card · Kevin MayiBrest

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Lens 3, draws 3, Brest 4.

Team news

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

Jean-Louis Leca, Arial Mendy, M. Tahrat, Modibo Sagnan, Massadio Haïdara, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, El-Hadji Ba, Souleymane Diarra, Walid Mesloub, Mounir Chouiar, Yannick Gomis

Brest line-up (4-1-4-1)

Gautier Larsonneur, Gaëtan Belaud, Brendan Chardonnet, Anthony Weber, Quentin Bernard, Thomas Ayasse, Dale Pelayo, Haris Belkebla, Ferris N'Goma, Yoann Court, Gaëtan Charbonnier