Lille
Troyes
Match summary
Lille saw off Troyes 2-0. Lille led 1-0 at half-time.
Tiago Santos put Lille ahead in the 18th minute, set up by Dilane Bakwa and Ethan Mbappé made it 2-0 in stoppage time, set up by Maurits Kjærgaard.
The chances backed that up: Lille created 2.05 expected goals (xG) from 13 shots to Troyes's 0.36 from 8.
Lille secured a two-nil victory over Troyes in their Ligue 1 fixture on Matchday 4 after dominating possession with sixty-three percent of the ball and completing six hundred and twenty-seven passes at an eighty-nine percent accuracy rate. The hosts registered thirteen shots with six on target, compared to eight shots and just one on target for Troyes, who recorded fifty-five dangerous attacks against forty-one for Lille. Troyes committed twenty fouls and earned no cards, while Lille made eleven fouls resulting in one yellow card, and finished the encounter with an expected goals total of 2.05 to their opponents 0.36.
Following an early VAR review in the third minute and a disallowed goal after an offside VAR review in the twenty-second minute, Lille opened the scoring when Tiago Santos struck a right-footed shot in the eighteenth minute to make it one-nil at half-time. Substitutions were made by both sides across the second half, and Lille player Olivier Giroud received a yellow card for a foul in the eighty-second minute. Ethan Mbappé sealed the result in the ninety-third minute with a left-footed shot, securing the two-nil final scoreline just before the final whistle.
