Lille vs Lens Prediction

Recent form

Lille's last 20 matches across competitions show ten wins, five draws and five defeats, with 35 scored and 21 conceded. Within that, their recent Ligue 1 form includes a 2-0 win over Troyes and a narrow 1-0 loss at Toulouse, alongside a Champions League defeat to Real Betis.

Lille: 20 completed matches; Lens: 20 completed matches.

Lille

20 matches

Win

50% 10 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

25% 5 / 20

Scored

33

Conceded

22

Difference

+11

Lens

20 matches

Win

55% 11 / 20

Draw

15% 3 / 20

Loss

30% 6 / 20

Scored

37

Conceded

23

Difference

+14

Lens have an identical overall split of ten wins, five draws and five losses in their last 20, netting 41 and shipping 25. Their most recent league games have been mixed, including a 2-2 draw at Le Mans and a narrow 2-1 loss at Monaco, plus a Champions League defeat away to Slavia Praha.

Lens have scored plenty in this sample but their defence has also been leaking goals regularly.

Comparative Team Statistics: Lille vs Lens

Head-to-head history

The most recent league meeting went Lille's way, a 3-0 home win back in April. Before that, Lens won 3-0 on their own patch in September last year.

Go further back and the fixture has swung around quite a bit over the years, including several draws and some heavy scorelines in both directions, so the long history doesn't point strongly either way.

The most recent result favours Lille, but it's only one match.

Where they sit right now

Lille are fourth in Ligue 1 after five games, with three wins, a draw and a loss, scoring eight and conceding just four.

Lens are down in fifteenth from the same number of matches, having won only once, drawn once and lost three times, with nine scored and nine conceded.

That gap in points and goal difference says a lot about how each side's season has started.

Players to watch

Franck Thauvin has been Lens's standout attacker, with three goals and two assists in his last five appearances, and F. Ivanović has chipped in with two goals in just three games.

Lille:

Best scorers:

Tiago Santos - 2

Best assist providers:

O. Giroud - 2

M. Kjærgaard - 2

Penalty cards:

R. Perraud x 2

Lens:

Best scorers:

F. Thauvin - 3

F. Ivanović - 2

Best assist providers:

F. Thauvin - 2

Penalty cards:

S. Sagnan x 1 x 1

F. Thauvin x 2

For Lille, Olivier Giroud has two assists in his last five, Tiago Santos has scored twice in the same span, and M. Kjærgaard has provided two assists in only two matches.

Lens have individual quality up front even if their team results haven't reflected it lately.