In this 3rd week match, on Saturday Aug 20th, Lens and Monaco will play a match in Monaco in a meeting of these two Ligue 1 teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 26 degrees, a perfect day for football. Monaco is fresh off their 1-1 draw against Rennes. Gaëtan Laborde struck first for Rennes in the 59th minute, then Breel Embolo tied it up for Monaco in the 73rd minute squeezing out at least the one point for Monaco. Monaco is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, Lens recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Ajaccio. Neither Ajaccio nor Lens could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 9 and 13 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. Lens is looking for direction having 1 win and 0 losses in their last 10 matches.
On Jan 30th, Lens hosted Monaco in their last match together. Monaco took the match by a score of 4 to 2. Wissam Ben Yedder struck first for Monaco in the 18th minute on a feed from Caio Henrique, then Jean Lucas added another in the 27th minute on a feed from Gelson Martins.
Florian Sotoca has been the most prolific scorer on Lens in the last five matches with 3 goals. Aleksandr Golovin and Axel Disasi are the top scorers for Monaco in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.
Aleksandr Golovin, Kevin Volland, Ruben Aguilar, Caio Henrique and Yllan Okou are unavailable to play for Philippe Clement’s team, while Lens will be without Gaël Kakuta and Wuilker Faríñez.