France - Ligue 1StarWelcome to the Turboscores match preview of the upcoming match between Lens and Clermont Foot, taking place on Saturday, 20 April 2024, at Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens.
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Lens, Recent FormAny Lens pre-match expectations for their last outing were misplaced, after an unexpected 2-1 away defeat by Metz. During that encounter they had 70% possession and had 17 attempts on goal with 2 on target, while their opponents hit 5 of their 11 shots on goal.
While they have been reasonably effective at circumventing their opponents defence, scoring 8 in their last 6 games, it's largely been tit for tat with their own defence proving to be equally ineffectual, conceding 8, and leading to valuable points being dropped. Their goal scoring streak now stands at 11 games in a row, but they have only kept 1 clean sheet in their last 6 home games.
Having lost 3 of their last 6 matches and recorded only 2 victories, this has to be seen as a poor run of results.
Goalscorer Elye Wahi will be planning to get himself on the scoresheet once more, having notched up 3 goals in his last 6 league matches for Lens.
Clermont Foot, Recent FormClermont Foot will have been quite satisfied taking a point from their last match against Montpellier, which ran out a 1-1 draw. They came away from that fixture with a 51% share of the possession and clocked up 10 attempts on goal with 2 on target, in comparison to Montpellier, who managed 14 attempts on goal, 6 of which were on target.
Pascal Gastien, their chief, will be doing some careful analysis of his defence, who have seen their goal breached 12 times in their last 6 games while somehow managing to pick up some points along the way with 5 goals scored. They've failed to keep a clean sheet in 5 of their last 6 away games.
Having drawn 2 of their last 6 games they have at least put some points on the table, but they will not be overly happy with only 1 win. From their 29 league matches this season, they have managed just 4 wins, which is certainly not a run of form they will be happy with.
On an individual basis, Muhammed Cham will be looking to get on the scoresheet again having scored 3 goals in Clermont Foot's last 6 league games.
The last time these two teams met Lens enforced their superiority over Clermont Foot with a comfortable 0-3 win.
Lens have managed to keep a clean sheet against Les Lanciers in each of their previous 2 meetings. Lens will be looking to extend their current run of scoring against Les Lanciers having scored at least 1 goal in each of their previous 8 meetings. In their recent meetings Clermont have struggled to keep Les Sang et Or at bay, having conceded 14 goals in their last 5 games.
Lens will be looking to continue their winning streak against Clermont, having won each of the last 4 times they have met in the league and being unbeaten in their last 9 meetings.
Wesley Saïd has scored in each of Lens' last 2 league games against Clermont.
Lens manager Franck Haise has some team selection issues to consider ahead of this match. Salis Abdul Samed (Ankle), Ruben Aguilar (Foot) and Jimmy Cabot (Cruciate ligament) are all currently out of contention for this game.
Pascal Gastien has a number of injury concerns in his Clermont squad to contend with: Jim Allevinah (Concussion), Maxime Gonalons (Unknown) and Cheick Konaté (Muscle)
Lens Playing at home | Clermont Foot Playing away from home | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.6 | Goals scored | 0.8 |
| 1.1 | Goals conceded | 1.6 |
| 43' | Time first goal scored | 35' |
| 36' | Time first goal conceded | 35' |
| 1.9 | Yellow cards | 1.8 |
| 0.1 | Red cards | 0.1 |
| 4.9 | Subs used | 4.9 |
| 4-0 | Biggest victory | 2-1 |
| 3-1 | Biggest defeat | 4-0 |
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