Nîmes 0-1 Lens: result and report

Ligue 2 · Friday 12 January 2018

Result

Nîmes 0-1 Lens

Ligue 2 · Friday 12 January 2018, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Nîmes 0-1 Lens: match report

Nîmes were beaten by Lens 0-1 in Ligue 2 on Friday 12 January 2018. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal was an own goal by Fethi Harek in the 47th minute, credited to Lens.

Discipline: Nîmes received no yellow cards; Lens received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nîmes were 2nd on 37 points from 18 and Lens 15th on 21 points from 19. Nîmes went on to finish that season 2nd with 73 points, and Lens 14th with 43.

Nîmes lined up in a 4-4-2 and Lens in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Téji Savanier of Nîmes (8.6), ahead of Anthony Briançon (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Nîmes wins, 1 draw and 4 for Lens.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Yellow card · Karim HafezLens
  • 47'Own goal · Fethi HarekLens · 0-1
  • 49'Yellow card · F. DuplusLens
  • 65'Yellow card · Jean-Kévin DuverneLens
  • 75'Yellow card · Filip MarkovićLens

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Nîmes 4, draws 1, Lens 4.

Team news

Nîmes line-up (4-4-2)

Baptiste Valette, Gaëtan Paquiez, Fethi Harek, Anthony Briançon, Sofiane Alakouch, Pierrick Valdivia, Romain Del Castillo, Téji Savanier, Renaud Ripart, Rachid Alioui, Umut Bozok

Lens line-up (4-3-3)

Jeremy Vachoux, Jean-Kévin Duverne, Dušan Cvetinović, Frederic Duplus, Karim Hafez Ramadan Seif El Din, Djiman Waidi Kokou, John Bostock, Souleymane Diarra, Abdellah Zoubir, Kévin Fortuné, Filip Marković