00:00Here's the local football club who are flying high in Ligue 1 once again
00:04and have a chance to move back to the top of the table with victory here tonight
00:10part of a great Lens team in the late 90s featured in the Champions League
00:16Lens are the closest rivals to Paris Saint-Germain at the top of the Ligue 1 table
00:22put a spanner in the works of the home team unbeaten in the league in 2026
00:30victory against Angers and then draws against Rennes and Monaco
00:38Chance maybe for a shot here from the edge of the box is slipped through
00:42beautifully done by the away team it was Soufiane Bouffal who played it back across the face of goal
00:47it's an inside to Wesley Saeed the drop of the shoulder
00:58back out to the right here for the captain Thomason cuts it back for the shot from Sangare
01:03first that foray into the opposition penalty box from Lens that ball has gone out of play for a goal
01:13kick Alon Sarr couldn't keep Austrian club and in that midfield tonight as they have come forward
01:19again Insul Ndi's ball into the middle played by Roban Riese
01:25space for Negu on the right Soumare waiting in the middle it's a decent delivery from Negu
01:37time to play by Thomason playing under the management of Pierre Saeed Wesley Saeed now
01:48just to play the early ball into the box towards Oson-Edouard with his back to goal
01:53that just fall for Thomas good save by Lionel Mpasi
01:58Florian Tovan with a brilliant first touch to engineer the shooting chance Pasi with the save
02:07opportunity again headed away by Zagadou
02:17and swinging delivery comes off the head of January window about to close of course
02:24Oudel holds up the ball into the middle one by the head of Sangonte
02:32nearly 10 years ago November 2016
02:37Thomason's delivery towards the back post
02:41Zouawi what a touch to that's come to Aguilar
02:45Juan Antonio
02:48inside to Sangare who lines up the shot from range
02:54Oudel plays the one two Mathieu Oudel to cross towards the back post might fall for Thomas
03:05the cushion volley wide from Florian Tovan turned 33 at the beginning of the week
03:15falls into the category of veteran these days
03:18he wouldn't have time to bring that down plays it out to Aguilar on the right teasing cross in from him
03:26and the effort from Tovan deflected wide for another lost corner this is good pressure from the home team
03:31coming off Luik Nego
03:42to be said that his successor Paulo Fonseca is
03:46doing very well at the moment Lyon in fine form themselves
03:50Tovan lovely footwork by Florian Tovan some appeals for a penalty as
03:54the French international forward goes down in the box
04:11forward by Saeed
04:13Tomasson will keep it in play
04:15Tomasson the captain
04:16Sliced cross a bit of an awkward one for Lionel Impassi
04:41Well it wasn't the best delivery that time long saw the team
04:43It's up by Zouawi
04:49And they come again a bit of space for Sumare to run into difficult angle for Issa Sumare manages the shot
04:56and it flashes across the face of goal from Issa Sumare well
05:01need to do something when the chance comes for them on the counter
05:06Sumare doing well to turn inside Ismail Oganiou
05:10and they attempt to curl that shot towards the far
05:15challenge coming in from Nego
05:18to Manon Sarr
05:23hanging ball left by Impassi
05:24It's up by Zouawi
05:29and then Sarr tries the shot what a terrific physics strike that was from
05:43Malon Sarr forcing the save from Lionel Impassi
05:54Eyeball towards the back post it's beyond everybody including Tovanus
05:58Udol the acceleration Tomasson into the box cuts it back for Udol
06:08and it's beautifully worked but Udol dragging the shot wide
06:12well nicely done by Mathieu Udol
06:21it's been so impressive this season for Longster his manager Pierre Sage has suggested that
06:27he deserves to be called up to the France squad for the World Cup we'll see about that but
06:32certainly could have done with a better finish there he's got just the one
06:35Ruben Risso coming out of his box to mop up
06:49again on the right into the final minute of the first 45 the attempted shot sliced
06:56rather wildly across to Udol on the near side here Wesley Said
07:00not necessarily troubling Lionel Impassi too much the long-range effort from Malon Sarr
07:10it's the closest they've come but that's a dangerous ball and it's a goal for Lens
07:15right at the end of the first half
07:20from one full-back to another Ruben Aguilar scores
07:23finally the breakthrough comes
07:34a terrific hanging cross
07:40an outstanding delivery and Aguilar take nothing away from the finish
07:46well this was the challenge by Ganyu on Buffal right back at the beginning of the move and Paul eventually
08:01there is the halftime whistle and the crowd livened up by that goal right on the stroke of halftime
08:10so we are underway then in the second half this evening Lens one live nil
08:26the response from Didier Digard's team to going out of the cup at home to second division Amiens
08:32in december has been pretty good as the first card of the evening is shown
08:38Sarr ignoring that option gives it to Thauvin who holds it up from the byline and it's collected by Lionel Impassi
08:46Buffal and Zouawi standing over the free kick and Zouawi has a very useful left foot on him
08:50it is Buffal to take it good ball towards the back post and that
08:59I think that may have come off the post it's still alive here
09:04back to Buffal
09:07so now we will get there before Thauvin
09:10well it was
09:12either the upright or Robain Riesser perhaps a combination of the frame of the goal and the
09:18goalkeeper there is a La Hav player down in the penalty box
09:25you can see him stepping up into midfield in possession comes out to the goal scorer Aguilar
09:30cross in right by the head of the substitute Mozingo
09:33well then
09:44I could be in a chance for the equalizer good save by Riesser to Danai Soumare
09:49once again
10:00so you're looking for Thomas and we'll lay it off to Mathieu Udall who set up the goal at the end of the
10:04first half of course headed down and it might just fall at the back post there's number two
10:09Andrian Thomas on the scorer
10:18and surely they are heading back to the top of the table
10:23midway through the second half they have that two goal cushion
10:26Lionel Impassi beaten again and once more
10:38crossed by Mathieu Udall causing problems in the away defense Thomas on laying it off to Udall in the
10:42first place nodded down by Thauvin they were lining up to attempt the overhead kick
10:48neither Edouard nor Said could pull it off but Thomas on pouncing and he gets his third goal of the season
11:02and the referee is going to have to come and look at this
11:05well there will be confusion in the stands the last fans will not be
11:10too aware of what the issue is here what the potential issue is
11:14the referee looking at this is there a handball by Wesley Said who tries the overhead kick he does
11:20appear to just unwittingly help that ball on with his hand with his forearm
11:28here we go no goal
11:35and it remains 1-0
11:36what can they do from the corner
11:45that's off the head of Odson Edouard at the near post
11:54Embele inside a chance maybe for Gournadoua to hit it that's a great strike
11:59from Luca Gournadoua for treatment for the lot of players
12:03away by Saar
12:10Sangaré
12:12comes in from the left it's going to fall to Wesley Said he might line up the shot it's too high though from
12:18Wesley Said
12:21another one who's really excelled this season at last they've
12:27dampened the spirits of the last fans if they do that
12:33the last defense stand firm headed back by Sangaré
12:36one rage effort takes a deflection and it has Robain Rieser scrambling
12:44Alonce on the break
12:48Fofana into the middle just beyond the reach of Tovan and then the follow-up effort blazed over the crossbar
12:54NDI pumps it up into the box
13:11Saar wins the header the referee with the whistle in his mouth and that is it
13:15unspoken against Lens have got the victory
13:25And
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