📏 Form Guide

Brest

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Brest enter this match coming off the back of a 3-3 Ligue 1 drawn result vs St Etienne.

In that game, Brest had 40% possession and 14 shots at goal with 6 on target. For Brest, goals were scored by Ludovic Ajorque (6', 37') and Abdallah Sima (25'). At the other end, Saint-Etienne had 9 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Lucas Stassin (16') and Irvin Cardona (34', 80') scored for St Etienne.

Matches featuring Brest have often been engaging encounters recently with high scoring being a real hallmark. Over their past half dozen games, a total of 20 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 12 of them belonging to Brest. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, though.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Brest:

• have not emerged victorious against RC Lens in their last 2 league matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 4 home league matches.

RC Lens

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After tasting defeat last time out to Reims in Ligue 1 action, RC Lens and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, RC Lens had 70% possession and 37 attempts on goal with 14 of them on target. Reims got 10 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Keito Nakamura (33', 88') was the scorer for Reims.

A tendency of at least one team drawing a blank in games involving RC Lens has become fairly consistent recently. Looking at their last 6 games reveals that this has occurred 5 times. In those clashes, their opponents have managed a goal aggregate of 7 while RC Lens have scored 6.

Going into this one, RC Lens have not won against Brest when they have played them away from home in the previous 6 league matches. They'll be keen to stop this run.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head clashes dating back to 07/08/2022 tells us that Brest have won 1 of them & RC Lens 4, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

19 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 7 of them for Les Ty' Zefs and 12 coming from Les Artésiens. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The last league game between the two was Ligue 1 match day 2 on 25/08/2024 when it ended RC Lens 2-0 Brest.

In that game, RC Lens had 52% possession and 20 shots on goal with 9 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Jhoanner Chávez (19').

For their opponents, Brest had 11 shots on goal with 2 on target. Julien Le Cardinal (45' Own goal) was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Jérémie Pignard.

🗞️ Team News: Brest

Jonas Martin (Hip injury), Soumaïla Coulibaly (Adductor pain), Bradley Locko (Achilles tendon rupture), Ibrahim Salah (Foot injury) and Justin Bourgault (Toe injury) will not be taking part for Brest boss Éric Roy.

It looks as if Les Ty' Zefs should make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation for this one featuring Marco Bizot, Edimilson Fernandes, Brendan Chardonnet, Abdoulaye N'Diaye, Massadio Haidara, Pierre Lees-Melou, Hugo Magnetti, Mathias Pereira-Lage, Mahdi Camara, Abdallah Sima and Ludovic Ajorque.

ℹ️ Team News: RC Lens

We are inclined to think that Les Artésiens seem likely to begin the game with a 4-4-2 formation, starting Mathew Ryan, Jonathan Gradit, Malang Sarr, Facundo Medina, Ruben Aguilar, Andy Diouf, Neil El Aynaoui, Adrien Thomasson, Florian Sotoca, Anass Zaroury and Goduine Koyalipou.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, RC Lens will need to put in a solid display to hit the back of the net against this Brest side who we think should manage to score & go ahead.

That’s why we have predicted a 1-0 winning score for Brest at full-time.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Lucas Pereira, 15:03 20/04/2025