Lorient 1-1 Valenciennes: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 17 January 2009

Result

Lorient 1-1 Valenciennes

Ligue 1 · Saturday 17 January 2009, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Lorient · Valenciennes · Ligue 1 predictions

Lorient 1-1 Valenciennes: match report

Lorient drew with Valenciennes 1-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 17 January 2009. The half-time score was 1-1.

J. Darcheville opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Lorient's goal came from Michael Ciani (43'). Valenciennes scored through J. Darcheville (28').

Discipline: Lorient received 1 yellow card; Valenciennes received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Lorient were 9th on 27 points from 20 and Valenciennes 19th on 15 points from 19. Lorient went on to finish that season 10th with 45 points, and Valenciennes 12th with 44.

Lorient lined up in a 4-4-2 and Valenciennes in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Lorient win, 1 draw and 3 for Valenciennes.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Yellow card · Siaka TiénéValenciennes
  • 28'Goal · J. DarchevilleValenciennes · 0-1
  • 33'Yellow card · JeovânioValenciennes
  • 43'Goal · Michael CianiLorient · 1-1
  • 88'Yellow card · S. MarchalLorient

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Lorient 1, draws 1, Valenciennes 3.

Team news

Lorient expected line-up (4-4-2)

Fabien Audard, Christophe Jallet, Sylvain Marchal, Jérémy Morel, Fabrice Abriel, Yazid Mansouri, Yohan Hautcoeur, Yann Jouffre, Rafik Saifi, Mickaël Ciani

Valenciennes expected line-up (4-4-2)

Nicolas Penneteau, Guillaume Rippert, Mody Traoré, Carlos Sánchez, Sébastien Roudet, Johan Audel, Jeovânio, Steve Savidan, Éric Chelle, A. Ouaddou, Geoffrey Doumeng