Lens 2-0 Reims: result and report

Ligue 1 · Friday 1 October 2021

Result

Lens 2-0 Reims

Ligue 1 · Friday 1 October 2021, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Lens 2-0 Reims: match report

Lens won against Reims 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Friday 1 October 2021. It was 1-0 at half-time.

A. Kalimuendo opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Lens's goals came from A. Kalimuendo (45+1', penalty) and A. Kalimuendo (52'). Reims did not score.

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

Going into the game Lens were 2nd on 15 points from 8 and Reims 11th on 10 points from 8. Lens went on to finish that season 8th with 62 points, and Reims 12th with 46.

Lens lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Reims in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Arnaud Kalimuendo of Lens (8.5), ahead of Seko Fofana (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Lens win, 3 draws and 0 for Reims.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 26'Yellow card · F. MedinaLens
  • 33'Yellow card · Kevin DansoLens
  • 45'Red card · H. EkitikeReims
  • 45+1'Penalty goal · A. KalimuendoLens · 1-0
  • 52'Goal · A. KalimuendoLens · 2-0
  • 57'Yellow card · Gaël KakutaLens
  • 58'Yellow card · Yunis AbdelhamidReims

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Lens 1, draws 3, Reims 0.

Team news

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Lens line-up (3-4-1-2)

Jean-Louis Leca, Jonathan Gradit, Kevin Danso, Facundo Medina, Jonathan Clauss, Cheick Doucouré, Seko Fofana, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Gaël Kakuta, Florian Sotoca, Arnaud Kalimuendo

Reims line-up (4-3-3)

Predrag Rajković, Thomas Foket, Wout Felix Lina Faes, Yunis Abdelhamid, Ghislain Konan, Marshall Nyasha Munetsi, Azor Matusiwa, Alexis Flips, Ilan Kebbal, Hugo Ekitiké, Mitchell van Bergen