Strasbourg
Lens
Match summary
Strasbourg came from behind to win 2-1 at home to Lens, with a late winner. Lens led 1-0 at half-time.
Florian Thauvin put Lens ahead from the penalty spot in the 38th minute, Gessime Yassine equalised in the 48th minute, set up by Sebastian Nanasi, and Yassine won it in the 85th minute, set up by Sebastian Nanasi.
Lens can feel hard done by, creating 2.95 expected goals (xG) from 17 shots to Strasbourg's 1.86 from 16.
Strasbourg secured a two-one victory against Lens in Ligue 1 on matchday two after registering sixteen shots to their opponents seventeen, with both sides managing seven efforts on target. Strasbourg edged the territorial battle, recording eighty-eight attacks compared to seventy-five, fifty dangerous attacks to thirty-nine, fifty-two percent possession and four hundred and forty-four passes with an eighty-six percent accuracy rate. Lens produced six corners to three, forty-one five passes at eighty-five percent accuracy, and twenty tackles to thirteen. The visitors accumulated an expected goals figure of two point nine five compared to one point eight six for Strasbourg. Both teams received two yellow cards during the fixture and committed ten and eleven fouls respectively.
The key action began in the thirty-sixth minute when Jeyland Mitchell received a yellow card for a foul, leading directly to a penalty goal scored by Florian Thauvin for Lens in the thirty-eighth minute with an expected goals value of zero point seven six, giving Lens a one-nil lead at half-time. Gessime Yassine levelled the score for Strasbourg in the forty-eighth minute with a right-foot shot. Following a VAR review in the fifty-十六 minute, several substitutions were made by both sides, and Ruben Aguilar received a yellow card in the eightieth minute. Franjo Ivanović and Gessime Yassine also received yellow cards, with Yassine cautioned for simulation. Yassine then scored the winning goal in the eighty-fifth minute with a right-foot shot, sealing the two-one final score.
