Lens – Lorient Prediction & Preview and Betting Tips (09.09.2017)

Prediction for Lens – Lorient

Both teams to score / YES @ 1.65

Lens and Lorient play at Stade Bollaert-Delelis in a 6th round of Ligue 2. The history of recent direct clashes is favorable to the visiting team, which has 2 wins and 1 draw in the last 3 games. The last direct confrontation between these two teams, on 22-08-2017, ended the victory of Lorient by (3-2).

Lens

After 5 losses, the home team is in 19th place and has not won any point. In the last match, they lost with Orléans away by (2-0), after in the previous game to have lost at home, in a match against Brestois, by (2-4). Lens won 4, drew 2 and lost 4 of his last 10 home games for all competitions.

In this competition, he has lost the last 5 games he played. Defensive solidity has not been his strong point as he has conceded at least one goal in each of the last 5 games in this competition. There are 1 highlights in the last 4 home games in all competitions: he suffered 3 of his 7 goals in minutes (76′-90 ‘).

The team is in the nineteenth place in the league table of the French League 2 with 0 points in five matches played so far have had five defeats. They scored five goals, conceded twelve goals and have the negative balance of seven goals.

It is one of the worst teams in the competition so far and a serious candidate to drop division if they do not improve their performance. The main problem of the team is their poor defense that has an average of two goals conceded by match and for that it is the worse defense of the championship. Since the friendly preliminaries they started in the second half for this new season, their performance is very poor and in the last eleven games they have had a win, a draw and nine defeats. Acting at home present better results, but not enough to stop being a team of poor technical quality.

His last match was playing away from home by League 2 against the Orléans team and were defeated by the score of 2-0. Before that, they faced the Lorient team away from home by the League Cup and also were defeated by the score of 3-2.

Lorient

After 3 wins and 2 draws, the visiting team is in 3rd place, having won 11 points. In the last match, they beat Stade de Reims at home (2-1), after they had won in the previous match in a game against Clermont Foot (0-2). In the last 10 games as a visitor, Lorient has won 4, drawn 1 and lost 5. His attack has scored regularly, as he has achieved in 4 of the last 5 games in this competition.

The team is in third place on the league table of the French Championship with 11 points drawn in five matches, so far they have had three wins, two draws and no losses. They scored eight goals, conceded two goals and have the positive balance of six goals.

The team is doing a very good campaign so far and so it comes in this round with chances to get the championship lead at the end of the round. They have an efficient offensive system and their defense is one of the most consistent of the championship. They drew a game in the first round of the competition and from there they won all their games. They are in good phase and do not lose a game for seven games. Acting out of the house is not a good visitor.

His last match was playing away from home by League 2 against the Clermont team and won the game by the score of 0-2. Before that, they faced the Stade Lavallois team for the League Cup and drew 1-1.