RC Lens 2 - 1 Olympique Lyonnais Lens scorers: Florian Sotoca (36'), Matthieu Udol (76') Lyon scorers: Khalis Merah (85') Venue: Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens, France Referee: Jeremy Stinat RC Lens: Starting XI Notes Subs Notes Robin Risser Mathieu Gorgelin Jonathan Gradit 50' 54' Samson Baidoo 54' Ismaëlo Ganiou Amadou Haidara 54' Kyllian Antonio Andrija Bulatović 83' Ruben Aguilar Junior Kadile 69' Michaël Cuisance 83' Mezian Mesloub Yacine Titraoui 54' Michał Skóraś Matthieu Udol 76' 84' Saud Abdulhamid Florian Thauvin Franjo Ivanović 69' Florian Sotoca 36' 69' Odsonne Édouard 69' Manager: Yannick Cahuzac (France) Olympique Lyonnais: Starting XI Notes Subs Notes Dominik Greif Rémy Descamps Zachary Athekame Noham Kamara Felix Bacher Clinton Mata Ruben Kluivert Khalis Merah 79' 85' Abner Vinícius Noah Nartey 60' Mads Bidstrup 60' Tanner Tessmann 79' Tyler Morton 79' Keito Nakamura 60' Ernest Nuamah 71' Kaïl Boudache 71' Pavel Šulc 79' Julien Duranville Corentin Tolisso Loïs Openda 60' Manager: Paulo Fonseca (Portugal) MATCH EVENTS 1': We're off! 12': SAVE!! Greif with a fantastic one-handed save to deny Sotoca! 13': Ganiou's volley for Lens misses the mark. 26': Some dangerous stuff from Lens but Sotoca's shot goes over the bar from a wide angle. 36': GOAL LENS!! A long pass over the top to Sotoca, he chests it down, cuts around Athekame and scores! 38': Aguilar launches a rocket of a shot from an angle but it goes over. 44': SAVE! Thauvin cuts inside and fires! Greif pushes it over the bar at full stretch! 45+1': SAVE! Greif comes in to smother a shot and it bounces off his head. 45+1': Lens takes the corner kick but Sotoca heads it high and wide. HT RC Lens 1-0 Olympique Lyonnais Lens just wrecking Lyon right now, Lyon barely had an attack at all. 46': We're back! 48': SAVE! Lyon finally gets a shot off but Risser dives to his right to deny Šulc 50': Jonathan Gradit into the book for coming in late on Vinicius, might have hurt himself in the process 53': Aguilar's curler goes just wide and hits the side netting. 54': Lens double sub: Amadou Haidara and Samson Baidoo on for Yacine Titraoui and Jonathan Gradit 59': Openda is walking off the pitch with help. Looks bad. 60': Lyon double sub: Keito Nakaumra and Noah Nartey on for Loïs Openda and Mads Bidstrup 66': SAVE! Thauvin cuts inside and shoots but Grief blocks it. 67': SAVE! Lyon launches the counter and Nakamura fires but he's denied by Risser. 69': Lens double sub: Franjo Ivanović and Junior Kadile on for Odsonne Édouard and Florian Sotoca 71': Lyon substitution: Kaïl Boudache on for Ernest Nuamah 74': SAVE! Tyler Morton's shot takes a deflection towards the far post but Risser keeps it out. 76': GOAL LENS!!! Matthieu Udol puts it home with a diving glancing header at the back post! 79': Lyon double sub: Tanner Tessmann and Khalis Merah on for Pavel Šulc and Tyler Morton 83': Lens substitution: Andrija Bulatović on for Michaël Cuisance 84': A RED CARD!! Mathieu Udol sent off after coming on Merah's ankle! 85': GOAL LYON!! They take advantage immediately! It's a failed clearance intercepted by Khalis Merah who scores on the volley! FT RC Lens 2-1 Olympique Lyonnais Lyon drop points when they could have taken the top spot in Ligue 1   submitted by   /u/MysteryBagIdeals [link]   [comments]