Monaco
Lens
Match summary
Monaco saw off Lens 2-1. Monaco led 1-0 at half-time.
Paris Brunner put Monaco ahead in the 32nd minute, set up by Matthis Abline, Matthieu Udol equalised with a header in the 57th minute, set up by Florian Thauvin, and Gradit's own goal won it with a header in the 84th minute.
There was little between the sides on chances: Monaco created 1.71 expected goals (xG) from 9 shots, Lens 1.46 from 12.
Monaco secured a two-one victory against Lens in Ligue 1 on matchday five, edging a competitive encounter at the end of the fixture. The home side registered nine total shots compared to twelve for Lens, with Monaco landing six efforts on target against four for their opponents. Possession was closely contested with forty-nine percent for Monaco and fifty-one percent for Lens, while both teams completed five hundred and thirty passes. Monaco accumulated an expected goals figure of one point seven one, higher than Lens at one point four six, despite trailing in corners at two to eight and dangerous attacks at twenty-five to thirty-eight. Discipline saw one yellow card issued to each side alongside thirteen fouls by Monaco and eleven by Lens.
The key incidents began with a video assistant referee review in the twentieth minute before Paris Brunner opened the scoring for Monaco in the thirty-second minute with a right-footed shot following a chance carrying an expected goals value of zero point five zero. Lens made a half-time substitution introducing Jean-Clair Todibo for Jonathan Gradit, and Florian Thauvin received a yellow card in the fifty-third minute for a foul. Matthieu Udol equalised for Lens in the fifty-seventh minute with a header, followed by multiple substitutions from both teams. Lamine Camara was booked in the seventy-first minute for a foul. The decisive moment arrived in the eighty-fourth minute when Jonathan Gradit scored an own goal, putting the ball into his own net to secure the two-one win for Monaco.
