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Lens — Lorient 0:1

Ligue 1 · 5 Sep 2026 · season 2026/27

The score says how it ended. xG says how it should have ended: it is the sum of the chances each shot was worth, not an opinion about the game.

Score0:1
Home xG1.10Lens
Away xG1.03Lorient
Expected points1.40 : 1.30

Who deserved it

Lens created more (1.10 xG against 1.03) and left with nothing.

The numbers

TeamGoalsxGGoals − xGExpected points
Lens01.10−1.11.40
Lorient11.03−0.01.30

How it fits the season

Lens: −4.8 for the season (15 in the table). Lorient: −1.4 (12). The gap between points and xPTS is built from matches like this one.

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