Lens vs Sporting Lisbon - prediction, team news, lineups

Two teams looking to physique connected their respective victories successful the Champions League opener volition look disconnected astatine the Stade Bollaert-Delelis, wherever Lens invited Sporting Lisbon connected Tuesday for matchday 2 of the league phase.

Les Sang et Or came retired connected the close broadside of a melodramatic five-goal thriller against Slavia Prague successful their opening fixture of the European campaign, portion the Lions besides bushed Galatasaray astatine the Estadio Jose Alvalade connected matchday one.

Match preview

Playing successful their 4th Champions League run and their 2nd successful 4 seasons, Lens began this year's league signifier successful cleanable fashion, coming from down doubly to grounds a 3-2 triumph implicit 10-man Slavia Prague.

Les Sang et Or were inactive trailing successful the closing stages contempt Abdallah Sima's equaliser successful the 72nd minute, but stoppage-time goals from Florian Thauvin and Ruben Aguilar turned the crippled connected its head, handing the French broadside a winning commencement to their European campaign.

Having exited astatine the radical signifier successful 2023-24 and been eliminated successful the UEFA Conference League qualifying play-off circular successful 2024-25, Lens, who did not diagnostic successful European contention past term, present person the accidental to marque a heavy tally successful Europe's top-tier contention aft finishing 2nd successful the French apical formation successful 2025-26.

However, Les Sang et Or person not enjoyed the champion spell successful the league this term, managing conscionable 2 victories successful their opening six matches, 1 of those wins coming successful an awesome 2-1 triumph implicit Lyon connected Friday, leaving Lens 10th successful the Ligue 1 table.

That triumph besides marked the archetypal triumph nether Yannick Cahuzac, who has overseen 2 competitory games since taking implicit from the dismissed Dino Toppmoller, and the erstwhile volition beryllium optimistic astir securing different occurrence connected Tuesday, buoyed by the club's European grounds astatine the Stade Bollaert-Delelis.

Lens person mislaid lone 2 of their past 29 location games successful European contention (W22, D5) and are unbeaten successful their astir caller 10, with six of those coming successful the Champions League (W4, D2) and they volition beryllium hoping that grounds counts connected Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Sporting get successful France looking to widen a promising European tally aft recovering from an aboriginal Goncalo Inacio ain extremity to unafraid a 3-1 triumph implicit Galatasaray, acknowledgment to goals from Geny Catamo, Luis Suarez and Rodrigo Zalazar.

The effect saw the Lions triumph each of their past 3 league-phase matches, including triumphs implicit Paris Saint-Germain and Athletic Bilbao connected matchdays 7 and 8 of the erstwhile season, erstwhile the Lisbon outfit enjoyed their deepest tally successful the contention earlier exiting astatine the quarter-final stage.

Tuesday's brushwood presents Sporting with different accidental to widen that awesome record, and they tin beryllium optimistic of doing so, having gone 9 games unbeaten this play (W6, D3), including an awesome 3-1 occurrence astatine Braga past Friday, which near Rui Borges' broadside 3rd successful the Primeira Liga table.

However, the Lions person a mediocre distant grounds to contend with heading into Tuesday's travel to Pas-de-Calais, fixed they person won conscionable 1 of their past 8 continental fixtures connected the roadworthy and mislaid 5 of those encounters.

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Team News

Lens volition beryllium without Abdallah Sima, who suffered a thigh wounded portion connected planetary work with Senegal and is not expected to instrumentality until precocious November.

Maik Nawrocki besides remains sidelined with an anterior cruciate ligament injury, portion Jhoanner Chavez and Jean-Clair Todibo stay doubts for this fixture.

Matthieu Udol picked up a reddish paper against Lyon, but his suspension does not use successful European competition, meaning helium is successful contention to diagnostic connected Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Sporting are expected to beryllium without Nuno Santos, who continues his betterment from a genu injury, portion Zalazar is besides ruled retired of the travel to Lens aft coming disconnected against Braga with a muscular problem.

Maxi Araujo and Suarez some made a quality disconnected the seat successful Sporting's astir caller outing, with the second scoring the equaliser, with the Colombian attacker having present recovered the nett successful 7 consecutive games crossed each competitions for the Lions, scoring 8 goals during that run.

Zeno Debast is backmost successful contention aft missing the Braga crippled done suspension and is an enactment successful defence should Borges determine to shuffle his backline.

Lens imaginable starting lineup:

Risser; Antonio, Ganiou, Gradit; Skoras, Bulatovic, Haidara, Udol; Thauvin, Kadile; Ivanovic

Sporting Lisbon imaginable starting lineup:

R Silva; Fresneda, Quaresma, Inacio, Araujo; Altimira, Doumbia; Catamo, Goncalves, Irankunda; Suarez

We say: Lens 2-2 Sporting Lisbon

Both teams are coming disconnected victories successful their respective home matches and besides enjoyed winning starts to their Champions League campaigns. 

With some sides apt to beryllium successful bully spirits, this could crook retired to beryllium a high-scoring affair, with small to abstracted them.
 

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