Lens 2-1 Châteauroux: result and report
Ligue 2 · Monday 2 April 2018
Result
Lens 2-1 Châteauroux
Ligue 2 · Monday 2 April 2018, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Lens 2-1 Châteauroux: match report
Lens defeated Châteauroux 2-1 in Ligue 2 on Monday 2 April 2018. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Walid Mesloub opened the scoring in the 38th minute. Lens's goals came from Walid Mesloub (38') and Souleymane Diarra (62'). Châteauroux scored through Christophe Mandanne (88').
Discipline: Lens received 2 yellow cards; Châteauroux received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Lens were 16th on 31 points from 30 and Châteauroux 7th on 51 points from 30. Lens went on to finish that season 14th with 43 points, and Châteauroux 9th with 60.
Lens lined up in a 4-3-3 and Châteauroux in a 5-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Souleymane Diarra of Lens (8.1), ahead of Dušan Cvetinović (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Lens wins, 3 draws and 2 for Châteauroux.
Going into the match Lens's last five read L-L-D-L-W and Châteauroux's W-L-W-W-D.
Key events
- 38'Goal · Walid Mesloub
- 46'Yellow card · Cyrille Bayala
- 62'Goal · Souleymane Diarra
- 68'Yellow card · Grégory Bourillon
- 88'Goal · Christophe Mandanne
- 89'Yellow card · C. Chantôme
Head-to-head
Team news
Lens line-up (4-3-3)
Jeremy Vachoux, Jean-Kévin Duverne, Dušan Cvetinović, Frederic Duplus, Brice Dja Djédjé, Walid Mesloub, Souleymane Diarra, Clément Chantôme, Cristian Lopez, Abdellah Zoubir, Cyrille Bayala
Châteauroux line-up (5-3-2)
Mouez Hassen, Chaker Alhadhur, Yannick M'Bone, Grégory Bourillon, Gerzino Nyamsi, Cheick Traoré, Sidy Sarr, Sofiane Khadda, Maxime Barthelmé, Oumare Tounkara, Saïd Benrahma