Red Star 2-3 Lens: result and report

Ligue 2 · Friday 3 March 2017

Result

Red Star 2-3 Lens

Ligue 2 · Friday 3 March 2017, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Red Star 2-3 Lens: match report

Red Star lost to Lens 2-3 in Ligue 2 on Friday 3 March 2017. The half-time score was 1-0.

A. Ngamukol opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Red Star's goals came from A. Ngamukol (32') and A. Sané (80'). Lens scored through Benjamin Bourigeaud (51'), Habib Habibou (87') and Cristian López (90+2').

Discipline: Red Star received 3 yellow cards; Lens received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Red Star were 15th on 32 points from 27 and Lens 2nd on 43 points from 27. Red Star went on to finish that season 19th with 37 points, and Lens 5th with 65.

Red Star lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Lens in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Karim Hafez Ramadan Seif El Din of Lens (8.4), ahead of Xavier Chavalerin (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Red Star wins, 1 draw and 2 for Lens.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 32'Goal · A. NgamukolRed Star · 1-0
  • 51'Goal · Benjamin BourigeaudLens · 1-1
  • 78'Yellow card · Abdellah ZoubirLens
  • 80'Goal · A. SanéRed Star · 2-1
  • 83'Yellow card · G. LefebvreRed Star
  • 87'Goal · Habib HabibouLens · 2-2
  • 88'Yellow card · Jérôme HergaultRed Star
  • 89'Yellow card · G. LembetRed Star
  • 90+2'Goal · Cristian LópezLens · 2-3

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Red Star 0, draws 1, Lens 2.

Team news

Red Star line-up (4-3-1-2)

Geoffrey Lembet, Lloyd Palun, Jérôme Hergault, Grégoire Lefebvre, Guy Demel, Ludovic Sylvestre, Idriss Mhirsi, Xavier Chavalerin, Florian Makhedjouf, Anatole Ngamukol, Julien Toudic

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

Nicolas Douchez, Jean-Kévin Duverne, Dušan Cvetinović, Karim Hafez Ramadan Seif El Din, Kenny Lala, Kermit Erasmus, Abdellah Zoubir, John Bostock, Luis Díaz, Benjamin Bourigeaud, Cristian Lopez