On Oct 22nd, Lens and Olympique Marseille will play a match in Marseille in a clash of the Ligue 1. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 20 degrees, a perfect day for football. Olympique Marseille is fresh off their 0-1 loss against Paris Saint Germain. Neymar struck first for Paris Saint Germain in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time on a feed from Kylian Mbappé, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Olympique Marseille couldn’t muster any offence and Paris Saint Germain ran away with the shutout win. Olympique Marseille should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 20 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, Lens recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Montpellier. Wesley Saïd scored the first goal for Lens in the 67th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Montpellier was frustrated by Lens’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Lens ended the match with the shutout victory. Lens should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 21 points in their last 10 matches.
This match will be the first time these two teams face eachother this season. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 1 win each.
Lens is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Kevin Danso and Florian Sotoca each only have 1 goal in their last 5. Alexis Sánchez has been the most prolific scorer on Olympique Marseille in the last five matches with 2 goals
Mattéo Guendouzi, Sead Kolašinac and Jonathan Clauss are unavailable to play for Igor Tudor’s team, while Gradit and Wuilker Faríñez are unavailable to play for Lens.