Lens and Lille will face off on Saturday the 4th of March at 5:00 pm in the 26th week of the Ligue 1. The match is going to be played in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage at the Stade Ferdi Petit. The referee will be François Letexier.
Lens sits in the 4th position in the table with 50 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Montpellier in its last match in the Ligue 1. Thus far, it has won 14 times, draw 8 times, and lost 3 times.
Lille sits in the 6th position in the table with 44 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Brest in its last match in the Ligue 1. So far, it has won 13 times, draw 5 times, and lost 7 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Lens
Lens has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (14 times or 56.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (14 times), 3-4-3 (8 times), 5-4-1 (once), 3-5-2 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Franck Haise is expected to play against Lille with the following players: Brice Samba, Kevin Danso, Massadio Haïdara, Jonathan Gradit, Seko Fofana, Salis Abdul Samed, Przemysław Frankowski, Angelo Fulgini, Adrien Thomasson, Loïs Openda and Florian Sotoca.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Lens would be 28.00.
Franck Haise will probably not be able to employ Facundo Medina because of injury.
Wuilker Faríñez, Steven Fortes, Jimmy Cabot, Adam Buksa, Alexis Claude Maurice and Wesley Saïd will definitely miss the match.
Lille
Lille has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (21 times or 84.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (21 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 4-4-2 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Paulo Alexandre Rodrigues Fonseca is expected to play against Lens with the following players: Lucas Chevalier, José Fonte, Gabriel Gudmundsson, Tiago Djaló, André Gomes, Benjamin André, Angel Gomes, Rémy Cabella, Timothy Weah, Jonathan Bamba and Jonathan David.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Lille would be 27.36.
Bafode Diakite, Ismaily and Adam Ounas will definitely miss the match.
