RC Lens 2:3 AS Monaco: xG & match report · Ligue 1

Saturday, 21/02/2026 at 17:00

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Match report · Ligue 1

RC Lens Home 1.60 xG · 18 shots

AS Monaco Away 1.95 xG · 10 shots

23 The scoreline reflected the chances

Goals

3' Odsonne Édouard RC Lens · 0.12 xG chance 1–0
56' Florian Thauvin RC Lens · 0.48 xG chance 2–0
62' Folarin Balogun AS Monaco · 0.11 xG chance 2–1
70' Denis Zakaria AS Monaco · 0.27 xG chance 2–2
72' Ansu Fati AS Monaco · 0.35 xG chance 2–3

The shots behind it

RC Lens AS Monaco

Shots: 18; 10
On target: 7; 5
Inside the box: 8; 6
xG per shot: 0.09; 0.18
Open play xG: 1.58; 1.36
Set-piece xG: 0.05; 0.39
Penalties: —; —

Shot-level xG may differ from the published match total

The provider publishes the match total separately from its shot-by-shot values. Those values are rounded to two decimals and, leaving out penalties and own goals, add up to its non-penalty xG: 1.62 for RC Lens and 1.76 for AS Monaco.

Shot map

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All shots

28 shots · 3.38 xG

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Recent form

Last 6 · xG per match

RC Lens

1.99 xG created 0.75 xGA

W 1.62 created, 0.66 conceded against Toulouse
W 2.66 created, 0.55 conceded against Auxerre
L 0.91 created, 0.88 conceded against Olympique de Marseille
W 2.14 created, 0.47 conceded against Le Havre
W 1.18 created, 1.38 conceded against Stade Rennais
W 3.45 created, 0.58 conceded against Paris FC

AS Monaco

1.11 xG created 0.80 xGA

L 0.69 created, 1.40 conceded against Olympique Lyonnais
L 1.25 created, 1.38 conceded against Lorient
D 0.43 created, 0.21 conceded against Le Havre
W 2.12 created, 0.38 conceded against Stade Rennais
D 0.61 created, 0.50 conceded against Nice
W 1.53 created, 0.93 conceded against Nantes

xG created xG conceded (xGA) W / D / L: the match result

Head to head

RC Lens: 1 won · 0 drawn · 0 lost

AS Monaco 1:4 RC Lens 08/11/2025 xG 2.83 – 3.16

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