Week 18 features a match on Wednesday Jan 11th, where Lens will travel to Strasbourg to battle Strasbourg in a clash of these two extremely mismatched Ligue 1 teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 8 degrees, making for an unpleasant day. Strasbourg is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Angers SCO. Neither Strasbourg nor Angers SCO could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 8 and 4 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 6 points in their last 10 matches, while lens sits at 2nd place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-0 shutout win against Linas-Montlhery. Seko Fofana struck first for Lens in the 72nd minute, then Florian Sotoca added another in the 77th minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Linas-Montlhery couldn’t manage to score, and Lens took the shutout win. Lens looks to continue their winning ways, having won 8 of their last 10.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Strasbourg won the head to head battle with 2 wins.
Alexis Claude Maurice has been the most prolific scorer on Lens in his last five matches with three goals. Strasbourg’s most prolific scorer has been Habib Diallo. The Senegalese attacker has netted 2 goals over the last 5 matches
Ronaël Pierre-Gabriel, Colin Dagba, Dimitri Liénard, Maxime Le Marchand, Eiji Kawashima and Kandil are unavailable to play for Strasbourg, while Wuilker Faríñez is unavailable to play for Lens.