RC Lens vs Strasbourg FC Prediction: RC Lens to keep Marching.

RC Lens are back playing at their best after back-to-back wins in their last 2 matches and their fans are hoping they maintain the run consistently. Prior to the wins, they had lost 3 games in a row, including a Coup de France game, so the team has one objective, and that is to finish as high as they can on the league table.

Strasbourg also had 2 bad games that ended in a draw and a defeat in the league. But their most recent game against Le Havre in the Coupe de France ended in a win and they look ahead to build consistency in the next game. Strasbourg are far from an ambitious team, and they will be satisfied with remaining just above the mid-table region come the end of the season.

RC Lens have built some confidence with the results from their last 2 games. The results prior to that were tough on the team, during which they lost 3 in a row against OGC Nice, AS Monaco and Paris Saint Germain. But they are back on their feet after beating Toulouse and Nantes in their last 2 league games, also without conceding a single goal.

RC Lens and Nantes were separated by a single goal last weekend. The goal came 3 minutes into the second half from David Pereira da Costa and Lens kept the lead until the end of the game. 

RC Lens are back playing at home against Strasbourg and they are expected to apply the advantage to their favor and get another win. They have a pretty convincing record against Strasbourg in recent meetings also and they expect that dominance to continue in this game.

According to the Ligue 1 table, RC Lens are in 6th place with 32 points in 20 league games.

Strasbourg did their job in the Coup de France match against Le Havre. Le Havre were clearly no match for Strasbourg playing on home soil and they did well to exercise their strength against Le Havre. Their next game is a trip to RC Lens’ turf and it looks like a tough game from all indications. Strasbourg has also failed to win any of their last 3 league games in a row, as they played back-to-back draws against Olympique Marseille and Clermont Foot and then a defeat against PSG in their last league game.

So, the pressure is surely building on the team to get back to winning ways in the Ligue 1. At the moment Strasbourg are ranked in 10th place with 25 points. With Le Havre being only 1 point behind them, any more negative results might see them drop further down the table. 

In 20 matches between RC Lens and Strasbourg, Lens have picked up 8 wins and Strasbourg have 5 wins and they played a draw 7 times.

RC Lens have won the last 2 meetings between both clubs and they are unbeaten in the last 3.

RC Lens are clearly the big guns in this game. With confidence flying high and the fans behind them, they should do very fine here. Strasbourg’s only approach would be to play safe and try to contain them, so we can expect a very dominant performance from RC Lens in this match. 

From analysis, RC Lens have no losses in their last 3 matches against Strasbourg, and Strasbourg failed to keep a clean sheet during that time. And in their last 5 meetings, there were less than 10.5 corner kicks played.

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