Lens vs Nantes - prediction, team news, lineups

Needing a triumph to support their slim hopes of surviving relegation, Nantes volition question to Stade Bollaert-Delelis for a day with Lens connected Friday.

A 1-1 gully versus Nice connected Saturday has Les Sang et Or successful second, six points beneath Paris Saint-Germain successful Ligue 1, portion Nantes stunned Marseille 3-0 but stay successful 17th.

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They hung successful determination for a batch longer than galore expected, but astatine this stage, it volition instrumentality a batch of bully luck for Lens to overtake PSG and triumph the title.

Pierre Sage’s men person dropped points successful 3 of their past 4 league outings and could spell winless successful 3 consecutive top-flight games connected Friday for the archetypal clip each season.

That said, 2 of their last 3 matches successful this contention instrumentality spot astatine Stade Bollaert-Delelis, wherever this squad person won 13 of their past 14 home affairs.

Winning this upcoming lucifer would guarantee their Ligue 1 rubric aspirations stay intact heading into adjacent week’s pivotal clash with PSG.

The Coupe de France finalists necessitate conscionable a azygous constituent connected Friday to warrant themselves a spot successful the League Phase of adjacent season’s Champions League, portion a triumph and a Lyon nonaccomplishment would guarantee them 2nd spot astatine worst.

In their erstwhile six top-flight location matches against Nantes, Les Sang et Or person earned astatine slightest a point, winning connected 5 of those occasions.

There is inactive beingness astatine Nantes for now, arsenic they picked up their 5th triumph of the run connected Saturday astatine location to OM.

That was the archetypal triumph for Vahid Halilhodzic successful his 2nd stint arsenic manager, putting them 5 points beneath Auxerre for the relegation playoff spot.

At this stage, that is the lone accidental they person of remaining successful Ligue 1 beyond this season, leaving them with 1 enactment betwixt present and the extremity of the season, to win.

Failing to bash truthful connected Friday would extremity immoderate anticipation they person of surviving, portion they request Nice to decision Auxerre connected Sunday to debar automatic descent into Ligue 2.

Nantes person points successful 2 of their erstwhile 3 distant matches successful this competition, capturing conscionable 2 victories extracurricular of Stade de la Beaujoire this season.

Four times this year, La Maison Jaune person conceded a extremity successful second-half stoppage clip with points successful their grasp, coming distant with thing connected 3 of those occasions.

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Team News

A hamstring strain whitethorn support Regis Gurtner retired of the Lens fold, Kyllian Antonio has a sore foot, Jonathan Gradit is dealing with a little limb fracture, Nidal Celik has a knock, portion Saud Abdulhamid, Adrien Thomasson and Mamadou Sangare volition beryllium suspended.

Allan Saint-Maximin gave them the pb against Nice connected the hr mark, lone for Robin Risser to concede six minutes earlier the 90.

Over astatine Nantes, Kelvin Amian and erstwhile Lens left-back Deiver Machado person knocks, Fabien Centonze is retired with a cruciate ligament teardrop and Tylel Tati remains a uncertainty with a limb issue.

Ignatius Ganago, Remy Cabella and Matthis Abline each netted successful the 2nd fractional past weekend, portion Patrik Calrgren made 7 stops for the cleanable expanse successful spot of Anthony Lopes.

Lens imaginable starting lineup:

Risser; Ganiou, Baidoo, Sarr; Aguilar, Bulatovic, Haidara, Udol; Thauvin, Saint-Maximin; Edouard

Nantes imaginable starting lineup:

Carlgren; Guilbert, Awaziem, Cozza, Youssef; Lepenant, Sissoko; Kaba, Abline, Cabella; Ganago

We say: Lens 2-0 Nantes

Even with immoderate cardinal players unavailable, we spot Lens volition unopen down a hopeless Nantes broadside who deficiency consistency and person struggled to find the backmost of the nett arsenic visitors each year.

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