Lorient 1-3 Lens: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 21 May 2023

Result

Lorient 1-3 Lens

Ligue 1 · Sunday 21 May 2023, 15:05 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Lorient 1-3 Lens: match report

Lorient lost to Lens 1-3 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 21 May 2023. The half-time score was 1-2.

Romain Faivre opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Lorient's goal came from Romain Faivre (6'). Lens scored through Florian Sotoca (20'), Adrien Thomasson (25') and Seko Fofana (87').

Discipline: Lorient received 2 yellow cards; Lens received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Lorient were 10th on 52 points from 35 and Lens 2nd on 75 points from 35. Lorient went on to finish that season 10th with 55 points, and Lens 2nd with 84.

Lorient lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Lens in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Romain Faivre of Lorient (8.5), ahead of Florian Sotoca (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Lorient wins, 2 draws and 3 for Lens.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Romain FaivreLorient · 1-0
  • 20'Goal · Florian SotocaLens · 1-1
  • 25'Goal · Adrien ThomassonLens · 1-2
  • 39'Yellow card · Deiver MachadoLens
  • 43'Yellow card · F. MedinaLens
  • 71'Yellow card · Darlin YongwaLorient
  • 75'Yellow card · Gédéon KaluluLorient
  • 87'Goal · Seko FofanaLens · 1-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Lorient 5, draws 2, Lens 3.

Team news

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

Yvon Mvogo, Bamo Meïté, Montassar Talbi, Vincent Le Goff, Gédéon Kalulu, B. Innocent, Laurent Abergel, Darlin Yongwa, Romain Faivre, Enzo Le Fée, Ibrahima Koné

Lens line-up (3-4-3)

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