Lens vs Lille Predictions

• Five of Lens’ last six games have included three or more goals
• There have been three or more goals in three or Lille’s last four home matches
• Lille are unbeaten in 11 games

Lens’ season needs a kick-start

The French season has only just reached the half-way mark, but already things look like they could be slipping away for Lens, who are on a run of just one win in six and have only kept two clean sheets in their last eleven games.

Conceding goals is a problem for Franck Haise’s side. They have already been breached 28 times in Ligue 1, more than any other side outside of the bottom five.

The saving grace is that they score plenty, too. They have only failed to score in one home game, meaning there is plenty of action at both ends in their fixtures. Indeed, eight of their last 10 outings have included three or more goals.

Lille in terrific form

Lille are a place and a point above Lens in Ligue 1 and they are looking to reach the last 16 of the French Cup for the fourth time in five years.

They enter this fixture having scored at least two goals in five of their last six games in all competitions and in five successive away games, a run which has seen them win four times.

They are fallible at the back, failing to keep a single clean sheet on the road, while 11 of their 14 matches on their travels have included three or more goals.

This fixture looks set to have plenty of goalmouth action. I predict that there will be three or more goals in the game, but Lille will continue their recent good run, picking 2-1 to the visitors as a correct score.