Lens 3-1 Niort: result and report

Ligue 2 · Monday 20 November 2017

Result

Lens 3-1 Niort

Ligue 2 · Monday 20 November 2017, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Lens 3-1 Niort: match report

Lens beat Niort 3-1 in Ligue 2 on Monday 20 November 2017. It was 1-0 at half-time.

K. Fortuné opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Lens's goals came from K. Fortuné (10', penalty), Souleymane Diarra (63') and Souleymane Diarra (90+4'). Niort scored through Didier Lamkel Zé (50').

Discipline: Lens received 2 yellow cards; Niort received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Lens were 18th on 11 points from 14 and Niort 14th on 19 points from 14. Lens went on to finish that season 14th with 43 points, and Niort 15th with 42.

Lens lined up in a 4-4-2 and Niort in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Souleymane Diarra of Lens (10.0), ahead of Kévin Fortuné (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Lens wins, 4 draws and 0 for Niort.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Penalty goal · K. FortunéLens · 1-0
  • 20'Yellow card · Laurent AgouaziNiort
  • 39'Yellow card · Jonathan BrisonNiort
  • 50'Goal · Didier Lamkel ZéNiort · 1-1
  • 63'Goal · Souleymane DiarraLens · 2-1
  • 66'Yellow card · C. ChantômeLens
  • 86'Yellow card · Dusan CvetinovicLens
  • 90+4'Goal · Souleymane DiarraLens · 3-1

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Lens 4, draws 4, Niort 0.

Team news

Lens line-up (4-4-2)

Jeremy Vachoux, Dušan Cvetinović, Dankler, Álvaro Lemos, Karim Hafez Ramadan Seif El Din, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, Souleymane Diarra, Clément Chantôme, Cyrille Bayala, Kévin Fortuné, Ouwo Moussa Maâzou

Niort line-up (4-3-3)

Saturnin Allagbé, Antoine Batisse, Jérémy Choplin, Julien Dacosta, Jonathan Brison, Laurent Agouazi, Aliou Dembélé, Jimmy Roye, Didier Lamkel Zé, Ande Dona Ndoh, Antoine Leautey