Saint-Étienne 2-3 Lens: result and report

Ligue 1 · Wednesday 3 March 2021

Result

Saint-Étienne 2-3 Lens

Ligue 1 · Wednesday 3 March 2021, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Saint-Étienne 2-3 Lens: match report

Saint-Étienne were beaten by Lens 2-3 in Ligue 1 on Wednesday 3 March 2021. It was 1-2 at half-time.

Florian Sotoca opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Saint-Étienne's goals came from Harold Moukoudi (40') and Denis Bouanga (90+5', penalty). Lens scored through Florian Sotoca (20', penalty), A. Kalimuendo (24') and David Costa (90+3').

Discipline: Saint-Étienne received 3 yellow cards; Lens received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 16th on 30 points from 27 and Lens 6th on 41 points from 27. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 11th with 46 points, and Lens 7th with 57.

Saint-Étienne lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Lens in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Adil Aouchiche of Saint-Étienne (8.0), ahead of Denis Bouanga (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Saint-Étienne wins, 2 draws and 5 for Lens.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Yellow card · Harold MoukoudiSaint-Étienne
  • 20'Penalty goal · Florian SotocaLens · 0-1
  • 20'Yellow cardLens
  • 24'Goal · A. KalimuendoLens · 0-2
  • 26'Yellow card · Mathieu DebuchySaint-Étienne
  • 40'Goal · Harold MoukoudiSaint-Étienne · 1-2
  • 66'Yellow card · L. Gourna-DouathSaint-Étienne
  • 77'Yellow card · Simon BanzaLens
  • 84'Yellow card · Florian SotocaLens
  • 90+3'Goal · David CostaLens · 1-3
  • 90+5'Penalty goal · Denis BouangaSaint-Étienne · 2-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Saint-Étienne 3, draws 2, Lens 5.

Team news

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Saint-Étienne line-up (4-1-4-1)

Jessy Moulin, Mathieu Debuchy, Harold Moukoudi, Pape Abou Cissé, Timothée Kolodziejczak, Lucas Gourna-Douath, Arnaud Nordin, Mahdi Camara, Adil Aouchiche, Kévin Monnet-Paquet, Charles Abi

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

Jean-Louis Leca, Jonathan Gradit, Loïc Badé, Facundo Medina, Jonathan Clauss, Yannick Cahuzac, Seko Fofana, Massadio Haïdara, Tony Mauricio, Arnaud Kalimuendo, Florian Sotoca