Lens 0–1 Olympique Lyonnais
- Mikautadze 45+1'
16 August 2025
The match in data
Olympique Lyonnais beat Lens 1–0 on 16 August 2025, on matchday 1 of the 2025-26 Ligue 1.
Player of the match: Malang Sarr (Lens), rated 78, thanks above all to 4 interceptions and 6 duels won. Sarr produced 1.3 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.2 times the cost.
For Olympique Lyonnais, the highest-rated player was Moussa Niakhaté, with 64.
Malang Sarr
Lens · 90'
Produced 1.28× and cost 0.19× their position's average
- 4 interceptions 3.3×
- 6 duels won 1.4×
- 3 aerials won 2.1×
- 2 duels lost 0.6×
- 1 misplaced pass 0.2×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malang Sarr ★ | Defender | 90 | 78 |
| Ruben Aguilar | Defender | 85 | 62 |
| Morgan Guilavogui | Forward | 90 | 60 |
| Florian Thauvin | Forward | 33 | 51 |
| Wesley Saïd | Forward | 86 | 47 |
| Adrien Thomasson | Midfielder | 90 | 46 |
| Samson Baidoo | Defender | 90 | 41 |
| Matthieu Udol | Defender | 90 | 39 |
| Rayan Fofana | Forward | 57 | 35 |
| Andy Diouf | Midfielder | 90 | 33 |
| Deiver Machado | Defender | 76 | 32 |
| Robin Risser | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Anthony Bermont | Midfielder | 14 | no rating |
| Saud Abdulhamid | Defender | 5 | no rating |
| Florian Sotoca | Forward | 4 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moussa Niakhaté | Defender | 90 | 64 |
| Corentin Tolisso | Midfielder | 90 | 63 |
| Clinton Mata | Defender | 90 | 60 |
| Georges Mikautadze | Forward | 90 | 60 |
| Malick Fofana | Forward | 90 | 52 |
| Abner | Defender | 90 | 41 |
| Tyler Morton | Midfielder | 90 | 41 |
| Ainsley Maitland-Niles | Defender | 90 | 38 |
| Tanner Tessmann | Midfielder | 90 | 37 |
| Khalis Merah | Midfielder | 24 | 22 |
| Saël Kumbedi | Defender | 66 | 20 |
| Rémy Descamps | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Adam Karabec | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Pavel Sulc | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
How is the rating calculated?
The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.