ReimsD14 Aug · Home Dunkerque · 3:3W24 Aug · Home Annecy · 3:1W29 Aug · Away RED Star FC 93 · 4:1D5 Sep · Home Guingamp · 2:2W11 Sep · Away Nancy · 2:1D18 Sep · Home Montpellier HSC · 1:1
3:3
Finished
Kick-off was
BST
DunkerqueD14 Aug · Away Reims · 3:3L21 Aug · Home Montpellier HSC · 0:1L28 Aug · Away Nancy · 0:2D4 Sep · Home Clermont Foot · 1:1W12 Sep · Home Saint-Étienne · 2:1L18 Sep · Away Pau FC · 0:2
In the Ligue 2 game on 14 August 2026, Reims beat Dunkerque 3:3. Match numbers: shots on target 4:9, corners 2:9.
Match report
Reims and Dunkirk played out a 3-3 draw in Ligue 2 on Thursday evening at Stade Auguste-Delaune. Two sides that had looked solid in recent weeks found themselves trading blows until the final whistle. The result leaves Reims third with nine points and moves Dunkirk up to tenth on five.
And here's the thing about this match — it never settled into a rhythm anyone could predict. Lebeau gave Reims the lead in the thirty-sixth minute before Tia equalised six minutes later. Then Youssef Fofana came on at half-time and immediately changed the game, scoring twice in quick succession before the hosts went down to ten men.
Armel Zohouri's red card in the seventy-fourth minute should have ended things for Reims. Instead Dunkirk had to work for every point, with Souleymane Keita pulling one back before Thomas Robinet converted two penalties in stoppage time. By then the match had become something else entirely — less about tactics and more about who would blink first.
The numbers tell a story that doesn't quite match what you saw. Dunkirk enjoyed sixty percent possession and registered 115 attacks against Reims' 53. They hit the target nine times to the hosts' four, yet Reims managed to stay level despite playing with ten men for twenty minutes.
To be fair, Reims had their moments too. Two big chances created, four shots on target, and enough structure to hold through the period after Zohouri's dismissal. It's not often you see a side with forty percent possession match their opponents shot-for-shot, but that's what happened here.
Reims remain unbeaten in five games now, though this draw ends what looked like a promising run. Dunkirk have lost two of their last five but showed character to grind out a point away from home. The table doesn't lie — but neither does the feeling that this result could mean different things in different contexts.
Prepared from match data
Key numbers
Possession, %40–60
Shots on target4–9
Shots off target4–5
Big chances2–2
HT⚽36' A. Lebeau — Goal⚽42' M. Tia — Goal⇄46' M. Daramy — Substitution⚽49' Y. Fofana — Goal🟨52' Allan Linguet — Yellow card⚽55' Y. Fofana — Goal⇄60' V. Mayela — Substitution⇄60' M. Decherf — Substitution⇄61' E. Prutsev — Substitution⇄61' A. Daho — Substitution⇄62' S. Soumano — Substitution⇄62' A. Kashi — Substitution🟨63' Daouda Guindo — Yellow card⚽72' S. Keita — Goal🟥74' Armel Zohouri — Red card⇄76' J. Morel — Substitution⇄76' Y. Fofana — Substitution🟨77' Khalil Ayari — Yellow card🟨85' Thomas Robinet — Yellow card🟨85' Samuel Kotto — Yellow card⇄87' M. Tia — Substitution⚽90' T. Robinet — Penalty🟨90+4' Souleymane Keita — Yellow card⚽90+7' T. Robinet — Penalty
D14 Aug · Home Dunkerque · 3:3W24 Aug · Home Annecy · 3:1W29 Aug · Away RED Star FC 93 · 4:1D5 Sep · Home Guingamp · 2:2W11 Sep · Away Nancy · 2:1D18 Sep · Home Montpellier HSC · 1:1
