Lens 1-2 Paris Saint Germain: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 January 2025

Result

Lens 1-2 Paris Saint Germain

Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 January 2025, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Lens 1-2 Paris Saint Germain: match report

Lens were beaten by Paris Saint Germain 1-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 18 January 2025. It was 1-0 at half-time.

M'Bala Nzola opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Lens's goal came from M'Bala Nzola (36'). Paris Saint Germain scored through Fabián Ruiz (59') and Bradley Barcola (86').

Discipline: Lens received 2 yellow cards; Paris Saint Germain received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Lens were 7th on 27 points from 17 and Paris Saint Germain 1st on 43 points from 17. Lens went on to finish that season 8th with 52 points, and Paris Saint Germain 1st with 84.

Lens lined up in a 5-3-2 and Paris Saint Germain in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Fabián Ruiz of Paris Saint Germain (8.3), level with Bradley Barcola (8.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Lens wins, 2 draws and 6 for Paris Saint Germain.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Yellow card · VitinhaParis Saint Germain
  • 36'Goal · M'Bala NzolaLens · 1-0
  • 45'Yellow card · Deiver MachadoLens
  • 59'Goal · Fabián RuizParis Saint Germain · 1-1
  • 61'Yellow card · Adrien ThomassonLens
  • 86'Goal · Bradley BarcolaParis Saint Germain · 1-2
  • 90'Yellow card · Senny MayuluParis Saint Germain

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Lens 2, draws 2, Paris Saint Germain 6.

Team news

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Lens line-up (5-3-2)

Hervé Koffi, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Jonathan Gradit, Malang Sarr, Facundo Medina, Deiver Machado, Florian Sotoca, Adrien Thomasson, Andy Diouf, M'Bala Nzola, Goduine Koyalipou

Paris Saint Germain line-up (3-4-3)

Gianluigi Donnarumma, Lucas Beraldo, Willian Pacho, Lucas Hernández, Warren Zaïre-Emery, Vitinha, Fabián Ruiz, Nuno Mendes, Bradley Barcola, Kang-in Lee, Désiré Doué