Lorient's penalty miss and a 90th-minute goal settled it

Stade Brestois 29 beat Lorient 2-0 with fewer chances than they usually create, after Lorient missed a late penalty.

Lorient had a penalty in the 90th minute to level a game they were trailing, and Aiyegun Tosin missed it. In the same minute Noah Edjouma scored for Stade Brestois 29, set up by Giovani Versini, and the visitors won 2-0 at the Stade du Moustoir. Ludovic Ajorque had already put them ahead at 69, so the last few minutes turned a narrow lead into a comfortable one.

Lorient had more of the ball than they usually do at home: 51%, against an average of 46.1%. They also took more shots than usual, fifteen against a typical 9.3. Expected goals, a measure of how good the chances were rather than how many were taken, came to 1.66, well above the 0.91 they usually reach at home. The difficulty was the finishing: not one of those fifteen shots was on target, and six were blocked on the way.

Stade Brestois 29 had 49% of the ball, close to the 46.3% they average away from home. They had fewer shots than their usual away figure of 14.1, managing twelve, and their expected goals sat far below what they usually create on their travels. Only four of their shots were on target, but two of those went in, which is the difference on the scoreboard.

Ajorque's goal was the one that mattered most before the penalty drama. He was rated 8 for his display, with three shots and a goal from them. Stade Brestois 29 usually concede 1.5 goals a game when they travel, and they conceded none here, so the visitors' defence did what it was asked to do across the full ninety minutes.

Discipline did not shape the result. Mama Baldé was booked for the visitors in the 41st minute and Isaak Touré for Lorient in the 58th, and nobody was sent off. Stade Brestois 29 committed sixteen fouls to Lorient's eleven, which is consistent with a side spending long spells without the ball, though the game gave no sign of that being the main story.

Lorient scored nothing, which is below their usual 0.9 goals a home game. That is the plainest way to see the cost of the late miss, because a goal from the spot would have changed the final score entirely. Instead the home side left with nothing, while the chances they created stayed on the page as numbers rather than goals.

Lorient are tenth in the table with twelve points from eight matches. Stade Brestois 29, with this win, have nine points from the same eight and sit 14th.

Player of the matchL. Ajorque1 goal8.0

L. Tousart3 duels won7.4

N. Edjouma1 goal7.2

A. Avom2 chances created7.1