Lens vs PSG prediction: FRANCE: Ligue 1 betting tips on match 2025-01-17 16:00.
[p]Saturday afternoon’s Ligue 1 action gets underway at the home of Lens, who are looking for back-to-back wins to maintain pressure on the European places. Much of the news surrounding Lens during the week has been the high profile loss of centre-back Abdukodir Khusanov to Manchester City, so plugging defensive holes will be the first order of business as they welcome runaway league leaders Paris Saint-Germain. [/p]
[p]Despite their healthy league position, Lens may struggle here as one of just five sides in Ligue 1 who are averaging fewer points per game at home (1.38) to away (1.78). Compounding matters for the hosts is the fact that they’ve won just twice across their last 22 H2Hs against PSG (D7, L13), whilst they’re also winless at any venue against sides beginning the round in the top-half so far this term (D4, L4). [/p]
[p]Whilst PSG’s transfer targets continue to dominate the headlines, Luis Enrique’s men have been cruising through their domestic football schedule, reaching the latter stages of the Coupe de France whilst maintaining a healthy cushion at the Ligue 1 summit. With their latest league win, PSG have now amazingly gone unbeaten in the first half of a Ligue 1 season (W13, D4) for a fourth time, more than every other side have ever done combined. [/p]
[p]Despite remaining unbeaten, PSG have showed some chinks in their armour on the road of late, failing to win three of their last five competitive trips inside 90 minutes (W2, D2, L1). The most recent of those was a cup success here in Lens, when the Parisians had to show character in coming from behind to force extra time with a 1-1 draw, leaving the champions with just one win in regulation time in their last five visits here (W1, D2, L2). [/p]
[p]Players to watch: M’Bala Nzola put Lens ahead in the recent cup H2H here, with that being the first of his five goals for the club to arrive on home soil. For PSG, Gonçalo Ramos recently put together a four-game scoring streak, culminating in the equaliser against Lens, without playing a full 90 minutes in any of those games. [/p]
[p]Hot stat: Lens boss Will Still has faced no side more often than PSG without ever winning (D2, L3). [/p]
[p][i]Written by Matthew Billon[/i][/p]