Lens 2-1 Reims: result and report

Ligue 1 · Friday 12 May 2023

Result

Lens 2-1 Reims

Ligue 1 · Friday 12 May 2023, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Lens 2-1 Reims: match report

Lens beat Reims 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Friday 12 May 2023. It was 1-1 at half-time.

F. Balogun opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. Lens's goals came from Przemyslaw Frankowski (40', penalty) and Seko Fofana (55'). Reims scored through F. Balogun (23', penalty).

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

Going into the game Lens were 2nd on 72 points from 34 and Reims 10th on 50 points from 34. Lens went on to finish that season 2nd with 84 points, and Reims 11th with 51.

Lens lined up in a 3-4-3 and Reims in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Seko Fofana of Lens (7.8), ahead of Przemyslaw Frankowski (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Lens wins, 4 draws and 0 for Reims.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Red card · Kevin DansoLens
  • 23'Penalty goal · F. BalogunReims · 0-1
  • 37'Yellow card · Yunis AbdelhamidReims
  • 40'Penalty goal · Przemyslaw FrankowskiLens · 1-1
  • 52'Yellow card · Przemyslaw FrankowskiLens
  • 55'Goal · Seko FofanaLens · 2-1
  • 67'Yellow card · Alexis FlipsReims
  • 74'Yellow card · F. BalogunReims

Head-to-head

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

Team news

Lens line-up (3-4-3)

Brice Samba, Jonathan Gradit, Kevin Danso, Facundo Medina, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Salis Abdul Samed, Seko Fofana, Deiver Machado, Florian Sotoca, Adrien Thomasson, Loïs Openda

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

Yehvann Diouf, Maxime Busi, Emmanuel Agbadou, Yunis Abdelhamid, Thomas Foket, Marshall Nyasha Munetsi, Azor Matusiwa, Jens Cajuste, Alexis Flips, Folarin Balogun, Junya Ito