Lens – Laval Prediction & Preview and Betting Tips (01.05.2017)

Prediction for Lens – Laval

Lens over 1.5 goals @ 1.83

I’m going to start the month of May by going to the French Ligue 2, a competition that I do not usually enter because of the unpredictability it seems to me, but at this point of the season there are things that seem to have a certain logic.

Lens

There are 3 days to go. For all teams except for these two, Lens and Laval, who have 4 games left. Very important party for both, but especially for the Lens, since Laval, as I will explain now, is already quite off the hook.

The Lens, a history of French football, winner of several leagues in the last century, has the option to regain the category. Right now they are sixth with 55 points, while Amiens, third in the table, has 57. That is, if the Lens wins this match he goes to 58 points and puts himself momentarily in promotion posts to Ligue 1.

Laval is last, with just 30 points, which leads him to be 4 of his predecessor, 8 of Orleans, and 9 Auxerre, team that marks the salvation with 39 points. Therefore, to 9 points in the absence of 4 parties for them and 3 for the others, they have the salvation almost impossible. They need to win at least 3 games of 4, or even surely win the 4 because it seems difficult that Auxerre does not add up.

This imperative need to add 3 in 3 should cause the Lens to have more spaces than normal in a league as under as the second French, so they may have more options in attack than in other games.

Therefore, and in summary, he plays the sixth-ranked, with serious options to ascend, and in fact if he wins he gets into promotion posts, against the colista, who is also quite off-hook and will have to look for the goal yes or Yes what can suppose that they leave more spaces.

Laval

On the other hand, I see more value in this over 1.5 than in the local victory. Neither the Lens is especially scorer nor the Laval is a team that fits too much, which on the other hand is the norm here. But if we look at the last victories of the Lens, we have none of the last 4 that have achieved at home have been 1-0:

13.03.2017 FRA D2 RC Lens 2-1 FC Sochaux
25.02.2017 FRA D2 RC Lens 2-0 Valenciennes FC
13.02.2017 FRA D2 RC Lens 3-1 Clermont Foot
17.12.2016 FRA D2 RC Lens 2-1 Gazélec Ajaccio

And as for Laval, three quarters of the same, they have conceded 2 or more goals in 4 of their last 5 matches:

21.04.2017 FRA D2 Stade Laval 1-2 Strasbourg
14.04.2017 FRA D2 Stade Laval 5-2 Stade Reims
07.04.2017 FRA D2 Le Havre AC 2-0 Stade Laval
31.03.2017 FRA D2 Stade Laval 1-1 AC Ajaccio
17.03.2017 FRA D2 Stade Brestois 3-0 Stade Laval

So as I say, because of the situation in the table, by the factor court, by the needs of one and the other, by the possible anxiety of the Laval … I think this over 1.5 of the Lens is doable.