Lens 1-0 Niort: result and report

Ligue 2 · Saturday 21 December 2019

Result

Lens 1-0 Niort

Ligue 2 · Saturday 21 December 2019, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Lens · Niort · Ligue 2 predictions

Lens 1-0 Niort: match report

Lens defeated Niort 1-0 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 21 December 2019. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Gaëtan Robail of Lens in the 52nd minute.

Discipline: Lens received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Niort received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Lens were 2nd on 37 points from 18 and Niort 17th on 17 points from 18. This fixture belongs to an earlier Ligue 2 season and is kept for reference.

Lens lined up in a 3-4-3 and Niort in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Zakaria Diallo of Lens (8.2), ahead of Gaëtan Robail (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Lens wins, 4 draws and 0 for Niort.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Yellow card · Ibrahim SissokoNiort
  • 52'Goal · Gaëtan RobailLens · 1-0
  • 58'Yellow card · Thibaut VionNiort
  • 72'Red card · Simon BanzaLens
  • 73'Yellow card · Yannick CahuzacLens
  • 87'Yellow card · Dylan LouiserreNiort

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Lens 6, draws 4, Niort 0.

Team news

Lens line-up (3-4-3)

Jean-Louis Leca, Cheick Doucouré, Zakaria Diallo, Aleksandar Radovanovic, Clément Michelin, Yannick Cahuzac, Guillaume Gillet, Massadio Haïdara, Tony Mauricio, Florian Sotoca, Gaëtan Robail

Niort line-up (4-4-2)

Quentin Braat, Julien Dacosta, Matthieu Sans, Bryan Passi, Darlin Yongwa, Brahim Konaté, Olivier Kemen, Dylan Louiserre, Thibaut Vion, David Djigla, Ibrahim Sissoko