Niort 2-2 Lens: result and report

Ligue 2 · Friday 13 April 2018

Result

Niort 2-2 Lens

Ligue 2 · Friday 13 April 2018, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Niort 2-2 Lens: match report

Niort drew with Lens 2-2 in Ligue 2 on Friday 13 April 2018. The half-time score was 1-1.

K. Fortuné opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Niort's goals came from Ande Dona Ndoh (45+1', penalty) and G. Koyalipou (64'). Lens scored through K. Fortuné (37', penalty) and Walid Mesloub (63').

Discipline: Niort received 1 yellow card; Lens received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Niort were 13th on 37 points from 32 and Lens 15th on 35 points from 32. Niort went on to finish that season 15th with 42 points, and Lens 14th with 43.

Niort lined up in a 4-3-3 and Lens in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Kévin Fortuné of Lens (8.3), ahead of Jérémy Choplin (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Niort wins, 4 draws and 5 for Lens.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 37'Penalty goal · K. FortunéLens · 0-1
  • 44'Yellow card · Dusan CvetinovicLens
  • 45+1'Penalty goal · Ande Dona NdohNiort · 1-1
  • 63'Goal · Walid MesloubLens · 1-2
  • 64'Goal · G. KoyalipouNiort · 2-2
  • 81'Yellow card · Jimmy RoyeNiort

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Niort 0, draws 4, Lens 5.

Team news

Niort line-up (4-3-3)

Alexandre Olliero, Zie Diabate, Matthieu Sans, Jérémy Choplin, Julien Dacosta, Laurent Agouazi, Aliou Dembélé, Jimmy Roye, Didier Lamkel Zé, Ande Dona Ndoh, Thibaut Vion

Lens line-up (4-3-3)

Jeremy Vachoux, Jean-Kévin Duverne, Dušan Cvetinović, Alex Gersbach, Frederic Duplus, Walid Mesloub, Souleymane Diarra, Clément Chantôme, Abdellah Zoubir, Kévin Fortuné, Filip Marković