Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Lens: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 12 February 2023

Result

Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Lens

Ligue 1 · Sunday 12 February 2023, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Lens: match report

Olympique Lyonnais defeated Lens 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 12 February 2023. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Alexandre Lacazette opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Alexandre Lacazette (23') and R. Cherki (64'). Lens scored through Deiver Machado (39').

Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received 1 yellow card; Lens received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 10th on 32 points from 22 and Lens 4th on 46 points from 22. Olympique Lyonnais went on to finish that season 7th with 62 points, and Lens 2nd with 84.

Olympique Lyonnais lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Lens in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Rayan Cherki of Olympique Lyonnais (8.5), ahead of Maxence Caqueret (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Olympique Lyonnais wins, 2 draws and 2 for Lens.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Yellow card · C. LukebaOlympique Lyonnais
  • 23'Goal · Alexandre LacazetteOlympique Lyonnais · 1-0
  • 39'Goal · Deiver MachadoLens · 1-1
  • 64'Goal · R. CherkiOlympique Lyonnais · 2-1
  • 85'Yellow card · Salis Abdul SamedLens

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Olympique Lyonnais 6, draws 2, Lens 2.

Team news

Olympique Lyonnais line-up (3-4-1-2)

Anthony Lopes, Sinaly Diomandé, Dejan Lovren, Castello Lukeba, Saël Kumbedi Nseke, Maxence Caqueret, Corentin Tolisso, Nicolás Tagliafico, Rayan Cherki, Alexandre Lacazette, Bradley Barcola

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

Brice Samba, Jonathan Gradit, Kevin Danso, Facundo Medina, Julien Le Cardinal, Salis Abdul Samed, Seko Fofana, Deiver Machado, Adrien Thomasson, Angelo Fulgini, Florian Sotoca