Reims vs RC Lens Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Reims

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Reims, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-2 Ligue 1 success versus FC Lorient.

In that match, Reims managed 48% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 2 on target. For Reims, the scorers were Arber Zeneli (17') and El Bilal Touré (59'). At the other end, FC Lorient had 20 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Terem Moffi (32') scored for FC Lorient.

It has been all too rare in recent times that Reims have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Reims have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 7 goals along the way. That pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this next game, of course.

Heading into this fixture, Reims have not registered a win against RC Lens in their last 3 league matches.

RC Lens

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In their last game, RC Lens drew 2-2 in the Ligue 1 tie with Nantes.

In that match, RC Lens managed 53% possession and 20 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. For RC Lens, the goals were scored by David Costa (67') and Arnaud Kalimuendo-Muinga (81'). For their opponents, FC Nantes got 13 shots on goal with 5 on target. Moses Simon (8', 32') was the scorer for Nantes.

During their 6 latest matches, Franck Haise's RC Lens have slotted home 10 times, yielding them the goals per game average of 1.67.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that RC Lens:

• have not won against Reims when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 21/10/2017 shows us that Reims have won 3 of these and RC Lens 1, with the number of drawn matches being 2.

In all, 19 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 11 for Les rouges et blancs and 8 coming from Les Artésiens. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The last league fixture between these sides was Ligue 1 match day 9 on 01/10/2021 which ended up with the score at RC Lens 2-0 Reims.

On that occasion, RC Lens had 61% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Arnaud Kalimuendo-Muinga (45', 52').

At the other end, Reims had 3 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Benoît Bastien.

📋 Team News: Reims

Hugo Ekitike (Hamstring Injury), Moreto Cassamá (Injury to the ankle) and Jens Cajuste (Hamstring Injury) won’t be able to feature for Reims boss Óscar García.

ℹ️ Team News: RC Lens

Owing to a fully healthy group to choose from, the RC Lens manager Franck Haise does not have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this game. Jean-Louis Leca will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

🧠 Prediction

Reims will really need to work well to hit the back of the net against this RC Lens outfit who we reckon will end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

Therefore, we predict a good battle with a 0-1 winning margin for RC Lens when the full-time whistle blows.

There should be little in it.

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Andre Moura, 00:32 04/05/2022