Lens 3-4 Le Havre: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 1 March 2025

Result

Lens 3-4 Le Havre

Ligue 1 · Saturday 1 March 2025, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-2

Lens · Le Havre · Ligue 1 predictions

Lens 3-4 Le Havre: match report

Lens lost to Le Havre 3-4 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 1 March 2025. The half-time score was 2-2.

Neil El Aynaoui opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Lens's goals came from Neil El Aynaoui (3', penalty), Ruben Aguilar (19') and Florian Sotoca (48'). Le Havre scored through Issa Soumaré (28'), André Ayew (33'), Josué Casimir (62') and Ahmed Hassan (90+1', penalty).

Discipline: Lens received 2 yellow cards; Le Havre received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Lens were 8th on 33 points from 23 and Le Havre 17th on 17 points from 23. Lens went on to finish that season 8th with 52 points, and Le Havre 15th with 34.

Lens lined up in a 5-3-2 and Le Havre in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Florian Sotoca of Lens (8.3), ahead of Issa Soumaré (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Lens win, 5 draws and 4 for Le Havre.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Penalty goal · Neil El AynaouiLens · 1-0
  • 19'Goal · Ruben AguilarLens · 2-0
  • 21'Yellow card · Abdoulaye TouréLe Havre
  • 28'Goal · Issa SoumaréLe Havre · 2-1
  • 33'Goal · André AyewLe Havre · 2-2
  • 34'Yellow card · Ruben AguilarLens
  • 48'Goal · Florian SotocaLens · 3-2
  • 62'Goal · Josué CasimirLe Havre · 3-3
  • 65'Yellow card · Ahmed HassanLe Havre
  • 65'Yellow card · Wesley SaïdLens
  • 90+1'Penalty goal · Ahmed HassanLe Havre · 3-4

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Lens 1, draws 5, Le Havre 4.

Team news

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Lens line-up (5-3-2)

Mathew Ryan, Ruben Aguilar, Jonathan Gradit, Malang Sarr, Facundo Medina, Deiver Machado, Adrien Thomasson, Neil El Aynaoui, Anass Zaroury, Wesley Saïd, Florian Sotoca

Le Havre line-up (4-4-2)

Mathieu Gorgelin, Loïc Nego, Étienne Youté Kinkoué, Gautier Lloris, Fodé Ballo-Touré, Josué Casimir, Mahamadou Diawara, Abdoulaye Touré, Issa Soumaré, Ahmed Hassan, André Ayew