Overview
- Lens conceded nine goals at home in a 9-1 loss to Côme on Wednesday, November 4, with Anastasios Douvikas scoring a first-half and second-half hat-trick and seven different Côme players on the scoresheet.
- The score set new unwanted marks: no team had ever conceded nine goals at home in Champions League history and it is the heaviest defeat for a French club in the competition.
- Coach Yannick Cahuzac and several players called the result an humiliation, supporters booed and chanted during the match, and visible anger at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis left the squad publicly shaken.
- The rout puts Lens's Champions League campaign in jeopardy and increases pressure ahead of domestic fixtures, including Sunday’s trip to Marseille and the next European match against RB Leipzig on November 24.
- Côme earned praise for a polished, possession-based display under Cesc Fabregas, Nico Paz drew particular acclaim, and the victory moved the Italian side up in the group while prompting fresh questions about Ligue 1’s competitiveness in Europe.