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

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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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Yellow card · Jean OnanaLens
  • 24'Yellow card · F. MedinaLens
  • 36'Yellow card · Igor TudorOlympique Marseille
  • 42'Goal · Seko FofanaLens · 1-0
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Przemyslaw FrankowskiLens
  • 45+3'Yellow card · Valentin RongierOlympique Marseille
  • 60'Goal · Loïs OpendaLens · 2-0
  • 63'Yellow card · Jonathan GraditLens
  • 63'Yellow card · Nuno TavaresOlympique Marseille
  • 88'Goal · Dimitri PayetOlympique Marseille · 2-1
  • 90'Yellow card · Brice SambaLens

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Lens 3, draws 2, Olympique Marseille 5.

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