Le Mans
Lens
Match summary
Le Mans and Lens drew 2-2. Le Mans led 2-1 at half-time.
In the first half, Adil Bourabaa put Le Mans ahead with a header in the 32nd minute, Lucas Calodat made it 2-0 in the 44th minute, set up by Adil Bourabaa, and Abdallah Sima pulled one back to make it 2-1 with a header in first-half stoppage time. In the second half, Franjo Ivanovic equalised with a header in the 51st minute, set up by Ruben Aguilar.
Le Mans had the better of the chances, with 3.01 expected goals (xG) from 12 shots to Lens's 1.88 from 16.
Le Mans and Lens played out a two-all draw in their Ligue 1 fixture on Matchday 4. The home side registered thirteen shots with five on target compared to sixteen shots and six on target for the visitors, while Le Mans edged possession with fifty-three percent and recorded one hundred attacks to eighty from Lens. Le Mans accumulated an expected goals figure of 3.01 against 1.88 for Lens. Both teams earned three corners each, though Lens won nine overall corners, and the hosts committed seventeen fouls resulting in two yellow cards while Lens received three yellow cards from eleven fouls.
The match saw its first disciplinary action in the fifteenth minute when Noa Boissé of Le Mans was booked for a foul, followed by yellow cards for Michaël Cuisance, Jean Vercruysse, and Andrija Bulatovic. Adil Ali Mohamed Bourabaa opened the scoring for Le Mans in the thirty-second minute with a header. Lucas Calodat extended the lead to two goals in the forty-fourth minute with a left-footed shot. Abdallah Sima scored a header for Lens in added time before the interval to make it 2-1. Following multiple substitutions at half-time, Franjo Ivanović equalised with a header in the fifty-first minute to finalise the 2-2 scoreline.
