Strasbourg vs Lens Predictions

• Strasbourg have taken seven points from their three home league games
• Lens have lost four of their six Ligue 1 matches this season
• Strasbourg have lost only two of their last 11 home league fixtures

More misery may follow for Lens

Lens finished second behind Paris St-Germain in Ligue 1 last season, but they are failing to live up to those standards in the early stages of this campaign.

Franck Haise’s side took until the sixth time of asking to get off the mark and, despite last weekend’s 2-1 victory at home to Toulouse, they still find themselves third from bottom in the standings.

Lens have lost four of their opening six games and they have a Champions League visit from Arsenal only four days away, suggesting they could be vulnerable at Strasbourg.

The visitors have scored only six times in as many league games and they are struggling for goals following the big-money departures of Lois Openda and Seko Fofana, who last season combined to score 28.

Home comforts can help Strasbourg

Strasbourg, on the other hand, look like a different beast to the team that could finish only 15th last season.

Patrick Vieira’s side have taken ten points from their first six games, losing only on away trips to Monaco and Nice, two sides above them in the table.

Fifth-placed Strasbourg have collected seven points from their three home assignments, defeating Lyon and Toulouse and coming from two goals down to rescue a draw against Montpellier.

With no European distractions for Strasbourg, they may make the most of home advantage and add to Lens’s early-season woes.

Strasbourg have scored exactly twice in all three of their home league games and correct-score punters should side with a 2-0 victory.