Lens vs Angers prediction: FRANCE: Ligue 1 betting tips on match 2025-01-25 16:15.
[p]Lens will be looking to European places within arm’s reach when they welcome mid-table Angers to the Stade Bollaert-Delelis. The sides met on the opening weekend of the season, with Lens running out 1-0 winners to make it four successive victories in Ligue 1 H2Hs, the last two of which were accompanied by a clean sheet. [/p]
[p]Form of late hasn’t been quite so good, with the Blood and Gold winning just one of their last four league matches (D1, L2). That record is even worse on home soil with three of their last four such outings ending in defeat (W1), while four overall Ligue 1 losses on their own soil are as many as Lens suffered in the whole of the 2023/24 season.[/p]
[p]Confidence could therefore be low in the home changing room, but the polar opposite should be true for the visitors as they have won five successive matches across all competitions. With three of those wins coming in Ligue 1, the SCO have put five points between themselves and the relegation zone pre round, the same distance they sit from the top-seven![/p]
[p]Angers last won four successive top-flight games in a single season back in 2016/17, and achieving that feat appears tricky as they’ve not secured back-to-back away victories in Ligue 1 since November 2020. Alexandre Dujeux’s men are likely to rely on solid foundations if they’re to make some history here, as they’ve conceded multiple goals in just two of their nine league away matches in this campaign (W3, D3, L3).[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Adrien Thomasson boasts a career-high ten H2H wins over Angers (D3, L4), and could be front and centre of attention here having been booked in successive appearances. Estéban Lepaul is a man in form and is bidding to become the first Angers player to score in four consecutive top-flight appearances since 1979![/p]
[p]Hot stat: Across their last 15 home matches in all competitions, Lens have conceded before half-time just once.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Tom Penn[/i][/p]