Metz vs Lorient

12 December 2021 · Ligue 1 · 2021/22 · Referee Eric Wattellier

Full time 4 – 1

Half-time: 3–0

Pape Sarr 5’
Moritz Jenz 9’ (og)
Farid Boulaya 19’
Ibrahima Niane 80’

Moritz Jenz 69’

Match summary

Metz won comfortably, 4-1 at home to Lorient. Metz led 3-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Pape Sarr put Metz ahead from a corner in the 5th minute, Jenz's own goal made it 2-0 with a header in the 9th minute, and Farid Boulaya made it 3-0 with a direct free kick in the 19th minute. In the second half, Moritz Jenz pulled one back to make it 3-1 from a corner in the 69th minute and Ibrahima Niane made it 4-1 with a header in the 80th minute, set up by Farid Boulaya.

Lorient can feel hard done by, creating 1.73 expected goals (xG) from 18 shots to Metz's 1.14 from 4.

Match stats

5 Shots 17

3 Shots on Target 6

3 Corners 8

2 Yellow Cards 2

0 Red Cards 0

1.14 xG 1.71

1.14 Non-penalty xG 1.71

1 Deep Completions 8

Key events

Metz Lorient

Kick-off

Pape Sarr

1-0

5’

Moritz Jenz
Own goal

2-0

9’

Farid Boulaya

3-0

19’

Half-time3-0

69’

Moritz Jenz

3-1

Ibrahima Niane
Assist: Farid Boulaya

4-1

80’

Full-time4-1

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Metz

Vincent Pajot
Pape Sarr

Lorient

Julien Laporte
Laurent Abergel

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Metz 1.14 xGLorient 1.73 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Lorient attacking Metz attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Marc-Aurele Caillard	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Fabien Centonze	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Kiki Kouyate	DEF	90			1	0.05	0.00	0
Dylan Bronn	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Thomas Delaine	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Vincent Pajot	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Pape Sarr	MID	90	1		1	0.46	0.00	0
Digbo Maiga	MID	80			0	0.00	0.00	0
Opa Nguette	FWD	85			0	0.00	0.00	0
Nicolas de Preville	FWD	72			0	0.00	0.00	0
Farid Boulaya	FWD	85	1	1	1	0.05	0.64	2
Ibrahima Niane	Sub	18	1		1	0.59	0.00	0
Amadou Salif Mbengue	Sub	10			0	0.00	0.00	0
Sofiane Alakouch	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.00	0
Warren Tchimbembé	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Paul Nardi	GK	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Igor Silva	DEF	90		0	0.00	0.11	2
Houboulang Mendes	DEF	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Moritz Jenz	DEF	90	1	3	1.08	0.00	0
Julien Laporte	DEF	58		1	0.06	0.00	0
Vincent Le Goff	DEF	90		3	0.15	0.60	4
Stéphane Diarra	MID	82		1	0.08	0.13	2
Enzo Le Fée	MID	90		0	0.00	0.02	1
Laurent Abergel	MID	59		0	0.00	0.04	1
Dango Ouattara	MID	60		0	0.00	0.06	1
Terem Igobor Moffi	FWD	90		2	0.10	0.07	1
Adrian Grbic	Sub	32		1	0.10	0.00	0
Armand Lauriente	Sub	31		4	0.12	0.01	1
Thomas Monconduit	Sub	30		2	0.02	0.07	2
Quentin Boisgard	Sub	8		1	0.01	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Metz win 39% Avg odds 2.44

Draw 31% Avg odds 3.11

Lorient win 30% Avg odds 3.17

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Metz D D W L L

Lorient L L L L L

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Lorient 2-1 Metz, 16 May 21 Next meeting: Lorient 1-0 Metz, 20 Apr 22 All Metz vs Lorient meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.