Lens 2-3 Montpellier: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 12 December 2020
Result
Lens 2-3 Montpellier
Ligue 1 · Saturday 12 December 2020, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-2
Lens 2-3 Montpellier: match report
Lens lost to Montpellier 2-3 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 12 December 2020. The half-time score was 1-2.
Stephy Mavididi opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Lens's goals came from an own goal by Jonas Omlin (36') and Gaël Kakuta (50', penalty). Montpellier scored through Stephy Mavididi (16'), Pedro Mendes (26') and Gaëtan Laborde (69').
Discipline: Lens received 1 yellow card; Montpellier received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Lens were 8th on 21 points from 12 and Montpellier 6th on 23 points from 13. Lens went on to finish that season 7th with 57 points, and Montpellier 8th with 54.
Lens lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Montpellier in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Andy Delort of Montpellier (8.0), ahead of Gaëtan Laborde (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Lens wins, 1 draw and 3 for Montpellier.
Key events
- 16'Goal · Stephy Mavididi
- 26'Goal · Pedro Mendes
- 36'Own goal · Jonas Omlin
- 38'Yellow card · Pedro Mendes
- 50'Penalty goal · Gaël Kakuta
- 69'Goal · Gaëtan Laborde
- 75'Yellow card · Yannick Cahuzac
Head-to-head
Team news
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Lens line-up (3-4-1-2)
Jean-Louis Leca, Steven Fortes, Loïc Badé, Massadio Haïdara, Jonathan Clauss, Yannick Cahuzac, Seko Fofana, Issiaga Sylla, Gaël Kakuta, Florian Sotoca, Arnaud Kalimuendo
Montpellier line-up (4-3-3)
Jonas Omlin, Junior Sambia, Pedro Mendes, Daniel Congré, Mihailo Ristic, Téji Savanier, Jordan Ferri, Florent Mollet, Gaëtan Laborde, Andy Delort, Stephy Alvaro Mavididi