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Lens dominates Brest in a tense match
Lens beat Stade Brestois 29 2-1 in a thrilling encounter at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis. The home side dominated possession and created more chances, but a J. Le Cardinal own goal in the 45th minute gave them a scare. Lens opened the scoring in the 19th minute with a goal from Jhoanner Chavez assisted by A. Zaroury. The game got heated in the final stages with several yellow cards for both teams and the sending off of D. Machado in the 88th minute for a second yellow card.
Lens finished the match with 52% possession, had 19 shots (9 on target, 5 off target) and earned 5 corners. Stade Brestois 29 had 48% possession, had 11 shots (2 on target, 9 off target) and earned 2 corners.
Lens secured an important victory that keeps them in the fight for the top spots in Ligue 1.
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Substitutions stade brestois 29: at minute 64 A. Sima came in and J. Martin went out., at minute 79 M. Pereira Lage came in and R. Faivre went out., at minute 79 J. Le Douaron came in and L. Ajorque went out., at minute 90 L. Zogbe came in and J. Amavi went out.
Substitutions lens: at minute 66 A. Fulgini came in and A. Zaroury went out., at minute 75 M. Satriano came in and R. Labeau Lascary went out., at minute 75 A. Khusanov came in and J. Gradit went out., at minute 75 D. Machado came in and Jhoanner Chavez went out., at minute 90 P. Frankowski came in and A. Diouf went out.
The teams lined up as follows:
Lens
Titulares:
Stade Brestois 29
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