Saint-Étienne 3-1 Lens: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 28 August 2010

Result

Saint-Étienne 3-1 Lens

Ligue 1 · Saturday 28 August 2010, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Saint-Étienne 3-1 Lens: match report

Saint-Étienne defeated Lens 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 28 August 2010. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Dimitri Payet opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Saint-Étienne's goals came from Dimitri Payet (5'), Dimitri Payet (79') and Dimitri Payet (85'). Lens scored through Issam Jemâa (90').

Discipline: Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Lens received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 11th on 4 points from 3 and Lens 8th on 4 points from 3. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 10th with 49 points, and Lens 19th with 35.

Saint-Étienne lined up in a 4-3-2-1 and Lens in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Saint-Étienne wins, 1 draw and 4 for Lens.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · Dimitri PayetSaint-Étienne · 1-0
  • 36'Yellow card · Loïc PerrinSaint-Étienne
  • 69'Yellow card · S. MarchalSaint-Étienne
  • 79'Goal · Dimitri PayetSaint-Étienne · 2-0
  • 85'Goal · Dimitri PayetSaint-Étienne · 3-0
  • 87'Yellow card · Y. DemontLens
  • 90'Second yellow · S. MarchalSaint-Étienne
  • 90'Goal · Issam JemâaLens · 3-1

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Saint-Étienne 3, draws 1, Lens 4.

Team news

Saint-Étienne expected line-up (4-3-2-1)

Jérémie Janot, Gelson Fernandes, Mouhamadou Dabo, Guirane N'Daw, Dimitri Payet, Sylvain Derome Monsoreau, Blaise Matuidi, Pape Malick Diakhaté, Emmanuel Rivière

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

Vedran Runje, Serge Aurier, Alaeddine Yahia, Henri Bedimo, Sébastien Roudet, Adil Hermach, Abdoulrazak Boukari Fafadji, Eduardo Ribeiro, Kévin Monnet-Paquet, Éric Chelle, Yohan Demont