Lens vs Angers Predictions

• Both teams have scored in the last six away Ligue 1 matches featuring Angers.
• Lens have scored 15 and conceded six in their seven home matches of 2021-22.
• Four of the last six Angers away games have finished 1-1.

Lens may take time to get over Brest blowout

Lens are odds-on to beat an improving Angers side that could go above them with a two-goal margin of victory at Stade Bolleart-Delelis on Friday.

Sang et Or have taken plenty of plaudits for their impressive opening to the campaign, but last week’s 4-0 humbling at Brest may take some getting over.

At least they will be back in front of one of the most passionate and vociferous fanbases on French football for their next game and they will need all the help they can get from the stands against Angers.

SCO’s only away defeat this season came at the Parc de Princes when a highly contentious 87th-minute penalty was awarded to PSG after a VAR check. And if they had been able to turn a couple of their five away draws into wins they would be above Lens right now.

Angers managing to score regularly on the road

Lens may have won four of their last five at home, but all of those vanquished visitors are now languishing in the bottom half of Ligue 1, so we’ll swerve them in the result betting this time.

A draw could well be the most likely outcome given Angers’ liking for them and Lens’ need to regroup after the Brest game, but the value here is likely to be found in the both teams to score market. Both teams have registered in Angers’ last six away trips and, although that doesn’t come close to holding true for Lens, Sang et Or are in some defensive disarray at the moment, having shipped eight goals in their last five games.

Seven of the last eight meetings between these have seen both teams find the net with 1-1 looking like the value pick for us because it has occurred so regularly in Angers’ recent record.

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