Lens vs Lorient — Tips & Analysis

Lens -1: Lens are a different team at Bollaert-Delelis, and that is why we are with them. They have won 8 of their last 10 games there and lost only 1. At home they score more than 2 goals a game and let in a goal a game. Across all games they have won 10 of their last 16, and 7 of those 16 finished with a win by 2 or more goals. Lorient arrive 14th with a single point from two games. They lost 1-2 at home to Troyes last time out. They score just over a goal a game and let in just over a goal a game, so they carry little threat on the road. Expect Lens to get in front early and run the game from there. Our read is a 2-1 Lens win. The safest version of this pick is Lens adding a third and winning by 2 or more. There are two warnings worth hearing. Lorient are hard to beat by a distance, and they have lost by 2 or more goals only twice in their last 14 games. Lens are also without five players, including defenders Gradit and Nawrocki, so Lorient should get on the board. We still want Lens, because this form and this ground point to a clear home win.