Lens 2-1 Olympique Marseille: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 6 May 2023
Result
Lens 2-1 Olympique Marseille
Ligue 1 · Saturday 6 May 2023, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Lens 2-1 Olympique Marseille: match report
Lens beat Olympique Marseille 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 6 May 2023. The half-time score was 1-0.
Seko Fofana opened the scoring in the 42nd minute. Lens's goals came from Seko Fofana (42') and Loïs Openda (60'). Olympique Marseille scored through Dimitri Payet (88').
Discipline: Lens received 5 yellow cards; Olympique Marseille received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Lens were 3rd on 69 points from 33 and Olympique Marseille 2nd on 70 points from 33. Lens went on to finish that season 2nd with 84 points, and Olympique Marseille 3rd with 73.
Lens lined up in a 3-4-3 and Olympique Marseille in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Dimitri Payet of Olympique Marseille (8.1), ahead of Przemyslaw Frankowski (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Lens wins, 2 draws and 5 for Olympique Marseille.
Going into the match Lens's last five read W-W-L-W-W and Olympique Marseille's W-W-W-D-D.
Key events
- 11'Yellow card · Jean Onana
- 24'Yellow card · F. Medina
- 36'Yellow card · Igor Tudor
- 42'Goal · Seko Fofana
- 45+1'Yellow card · Przemyslaw Frankowski
- 45+3'Yellow card · Valentin Rongier
- 60'Goal · Loïs Openda
- 63'Yellow card · Jonathan Gradit
- 63'Yellow card · Nuno Tavares
- 88'Goal · Dimitri Payet
- 90'Yellow card · Brice Samba
Head-to-head
Team news
Lens line-up (3-4-3)
Brice Samba, Jonathan Gradit, Kevin Danso, Facundo Medina, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Jean Onana, Seko Fofana, Deiver Machado, Florian Sotoca, Angelo Fulgini, Loïs Openda
Olympique Marseille line-up (3-4-2-1)
Pau López, Chancel Mbemba, Samuel Gigot, Sead Kolasinac, Jonathan Clauss, Valentin Rongier, Jordan Veretout, Nuno Tavares, Cengiz Ünder, Ruslan Malinovskyi, Alexis Sánchez