Valenciennes 3-2 Sochaux: result and report

Ligue 2 · Friday 14 February 2020

Result

Valenciennes 3-2 Sochaux

Ligue 2 · Friday 14 February 2020, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Valenciennes 3-2 Sochaux: match report

Valenciennes defeated Sochaux 3-2 in Ligue 2 on Friday 14 February 2020. The half-time score was 0-2.

Sofiane Diop opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Valenciennes's goals came from N. Diliberto (69'), Kévin Cabral (70') and Malek Chergui (80'). Sochaux scored through Sofiane Diop (10') and A. Sané (11').

Discipline: Valenciennes received 3 yellow cards; Sochaux received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Valenciennes were 8th on 35 points from 24 and Sochaux 10th on 32 points from 24. This fixture belongs to an earlier Ligue 2 season and is kept for reference.

Valenciennes lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Sochaux in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Sofiane Diop of Sochaux (8.3), ahead of Malek Chergui (8.2).

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

Going into the match Valenciennes's last five read L-D-D-W-L and Sochaux's W-D-L-L-D.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Sofiane DiopSochaux · 0-1
  • 11'Goal · A. SanéSochaux · 0-2
  • 15'Yellow card · L. Dos SantosValenciennes
  • 43'Yellow card · Salem M'BakataSochaux
  • 61'Yellow card · Sessi D'AlmeidaValenciennes
  • 69'Goal · N. DilibertoValenciennes · 1-2
  • 70'Goal · Kévin CabralValenciennes · 2-2
  • 80'Goal · Malek CherguiValenciennes · 3-2
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Kévin CabralValenciennes

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Valenciennes 3, draws 5, Sochaux 2.

Team news

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

Jérôme Prior, Laurent Dos Santos, Maxime Spano, Joffrey Cuffaut, Aly Abeid, Noah Diliberto, Sessi D'Almeida, Julien Masson, Gauthier Hein, Baptiste Guillaume, Teddy Chevalier

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

Maxence Prévot, Salem M'Bakata, Maxence Lacroix, Adolphe Teikeu, Christopher Rocchia, Melvin Sitti, Ousseynou Thioune, Bryan Lasme, Sofiane Diop, Thomas Touré, Abdoulaye Sane