RC Lens vs AJ Auxerre Prediction: RC Lens are title contenders

RC Lens welcome AJ Auxerre to the Stade Bollaert-Delelis for a weekend Ligue 1 soccer match. Lens will look to return back to winning ways after they were pegged to a 2-2 draw away against RC Strasbourg and AJ Auxerre are in a tough situation after losing 5-0 against Toulouse in the last round. RC Lens looks like a solid stake here but can AJ Auxerre's desperation cause an upset?

RC Lens are a solid team at best. They are currently 6 points behind league leaders PSG with 41 points after 18 games. From 18 games, they have 12 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss so far and their goal scoring record is 31/13, which is very good.

You can't help but talk about the RC Lens display against league leaders PSG on the 1st of January. The Parisans were totally outclassed by the RC Lens team and deservedly so, RC Lens won 3-1 to keep the pressure on PSG. Now against teams like AJ Auxerre, you can expect them to go all out to pick up maximum points.

Len's forward Lois Openda has registered 9 goals already this season and he scored 2 last time out. With him in the lineup, you can be sure he will register a goal or two against a weaker side.

AJ Auxerre has been disastrous so far in the season. They are 18th with 13 points from 18 games. They won 3, drew 4 and lost 11 matches. Away from home they are the poorest side in the league with just 1 win and 1 draw when they play on the road. Their goal record even looks outrageous with 16 goals scored and 40 goals conceded.

In their last match, they were completely thumped by 12th place Toulouse by 5-0 on their own turf. AJ Auxerre registered twice more shots (18) than the visitors but had only 4 hit the target. Clearly this side looks over their depths coming against a top 2 team in the league.

M'Baye Niang is the teams top scorer with 3 goals so far and one of the reasons AJ Auxerre have struggled to register goals is because of low fire power in the attacking unit.

20 matches have been played in total between these two teams. RC Lens have 11 wins while AJ Auxerre managed 3 wins and 11 ended in a draw.

This looks like a walk over for the RC Lens team frankly. Surely, they have learned from the 2-2 slip against RC Strasbourg and am sure they will be itching to go out there and grab a win. RC Lens are a team with real ambitions and winning matches like this puts them on track. AJ Auxerre on the other hand is likely to struggle playing away from home as they have all season. With goals scoring form in short supply, I see them conceding un-replied goals in this fixture. 

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