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Commentary
AURIER booked.
A shot from BALENZIAGA was kicked off the line by BURDISSO.
The Lens 'keeper parried a lovely shot from SANTI CAZORLA.
15¹DZYUBA dribbled past VARANE and rifled a tame shot past the post.
21¹DZYUBA made space on the right and knocked the ball to GUARDADO who clipped the ball over.
25¹A fine ball from IBAI on the left fell to SANTI CAZORLA who mishit his shot wide.
28¹FONTÁS receives a yellow card for a cynical tackle.
28¹GOAL!! A nice run by LUÍS FABIANO on the right was capped by a wonderful cross which MBAPPÉ nodded home at the near post. (1-0 Lens)
43¹IBAI beat ROBERTO FIRMINO and drove the ball to BALENZIAGA who hit his shot wide.
45¹GOAL!! A mishit backpass by WOME enabled GUARDADO to nip in and slide the ball past ARÉOLA. (1-1)
A poor foul on FONTÁS by MBAPPÉ results in a booking.
GOAL!! MBAPPÉ stabbed a penalty past the 'keeper after SANTI CAZORLA had handled just inside the area. (2-1 Lens)
A neatly crafted cross from DZYUBA was flicked goalbound by BALENZIAGA only for the 'keeper to palm clear.
14²A shot from MONTERO was smothered by the Athletic Bilbao 'keeper.
17²SIMÃO beat four Athletic Bilbao players and drove a shot just beyond the far post.
26²A poor strike from FONTÁS bounced agonisingly wide.
27²MONTERO drilled a deadly shot over from twenty yards out.
29²The Lens 'keeper dived to his right to stop a lovely shot from Athletic Bilbao's GUARDADO.
32²AURIER was put clear by ROBERTO FIRMINO and he stepped inside IRAIZOZ but thrust his shot wide.
39²A free-kick from GUARDADO flew wide.
41²CALLEJÓN played the ball to SIMPSON who nodded it just beyond the far post.
43²AURIER sent off.

 
Lens
 
League position: 11
Home league form: LXWX
Overall league form: LLXWWXLX
Formation: 4-5-1
Line-ups
Alphonse ARÉOLA1Gorka IRAIZOZ(c)
(c)Pierre WOME2Danny SIMPSON
Serge AURIER3Mikel BALENZIAGA
SIMÃO Pedro4SANTI CAZORLA
Nicolás BURDISSO5Xabier ETXEITA
Raphaël VARANE6Andreu FONTÁS
Jefferson MONTERO7José CALLEJÓN
ROBERTO FIRMINO Barbosa8Andrés GUARDADO
Granit XHAKA9Artem DZYUBA(p)
(p,f)Kylian MBAPPÉ10Víctor SOSA(f)
LUÍS FABIANO Clemente11IBAI Gómez
Neil SAUNDERSONManager
Vedad IBISEVIC  12  Jeroen SIMAEYS
Tim KRUL  13  Mark GILLESPIE
Nigel DE JONG  14  Daniel GÜIZA
Benoît ASSOU-EKOTTO  15  Marc BERTRÁN
Marcus RASHFORD  16Sofiane FEGHOULI
 
Athletic Bilbao
 
League position: 5
Away league form: WLLX
Overall league form: WLWLWWXW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Lens 2 Athletic Bilbao 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 41,264, Stadium: Félix-Bollaert, Referee: Mario van der Ende 5½)

Mbappé 28¹, Mbappé 4² (pen)
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Guardado 45¹
 IbaióFeghouli 27²
Aurier 43² 
Aurier 1¹, Mbappé 0²Fontás 28¹
46
813
156
57
109
1516
36
50%50%
Man of the match: Mikel Balenziaga