Lorient 3-2 Valenciennes: result and report
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 23 December 2009
Result
Lorient 3-2 Valenciennes
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 23 December 2009, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-2
Lorient 3-2 Valenciennes: match report
Lorient beat Valenciennes 3-2 in Ligue 1 on Wednesday 23 December 2009. It was 2-2 at half-time.
Johan Audel opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Lorient's goals came from Morgan Amalfitano (24'), Morgan Amalfitano (45') and F. Sosa (65'). Valenciennes scored through Johan Audel (5') and Gaël Danic (35').
Discipline: Lorient received 1 yellow card; Valenciennes received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Lorient were 10th on 26 points from 18 and Valenciennes 6th on 28 points from 18. Lorient went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Valenciennes 9th with 52.
Lorient lined up in a 4-4-2 and Valenciennes in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Lorient win, 2 draws and 3 for Valenciennes.
Going into the match Lorient's last five read L-L-D-L-D and Valenciennes's D-D-L-W-L.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Johan Audel
- 24'Goal · Morgan Amalfitano
- 33'Yellow card · Morgan Amalfitano
- 35'Goal · Gaël Danic
- 45'Goal · Morgan Amalfitano
- 48'Yellow card · D. Ducourtioux
- 50'Yellow card · Siaka Tiéné
- 65'Goal · F. Sosa
- 70'Yellow card · Jacques Abardonado
Head-to-head
Team news
Lorient line-up (4-4-2)
Fabien Audard, Franco Sosa, Laurent Koscielny, Arnaud Le Lan, Sylvain Marchal, Arnold Mvuemba, Morgan Amalfitano, Pierre Ducasse, Kévin Gameiro, Sigamary Diarra, Marama Vahirua
Valenciennes line-up (4-3-3)
Guy N'Dy Assembé, Siaka Tiéné, Johan Audel, Fahid Ben Khalfallah, Remi Gomis, Carlos Sánchez, Renaud Cohade, Gaël Danic, David Ducourtioux, Jacques Abardonado, Gaëtan Bong