Drafting Media365, published on Sunday January 26, 2025 at 08:30
Lens receives Angers this Sunday afternoon (5:15 p.m.) on behalf of the 19th day of Ligue 1. Here is everything you need to know about this meeting.
Littlely beaten by Paris Saint-Germain last week (1-2), Lens (7th, 27 points) will try to recover this Sunday in his lair and could take advantage of Lille's defeat in Strasbourg to get closer to a of its direct competitors. It is up to blood and gold to do one of the good operations of this day. For his part, Angers (13th, 22 points) is much better and has chained three victories in a row. In the North, the SCO will target the four in a row.
The stats to know (with OPTA)
Lens has won his last 4 games against Angers in Ligue 1, his longest series in progress against the same opponent in the elite (4 also against Nantes).
Lens failed to win his last 2 receptions from a club promoted to Ligue 1 (0-1 against Metz in September 2023, 1-1 against Le Havre in April 2024), after having won each of the first 6 since its ascent in the 'Elite in 2020-21.
Lens has won only one of his last 4 games in Ligue 1 (1 draw, 2 defeats) after winning 3 of his previous 4 (1 reverse).
-Angers is the only team that won 3 games in January and could have 4 successes in the same season in the elite for the 1st time since February – March 2017.
Lens lost 4 home games in Ligue 1,2024-25, all in their last 6 receptions (2 victories). It is already as much setback in Bollaert as throughout last season. A 5th home defeat would also match the club's highest total over the past 5 seasons (5 in 2020-21).
Angers alternated victories (3) and defeats (2) during his last 5 trips in Ligue 1, gleaning as many victories as in his 46 previous games (16 draws, 27 defeats). You have to go back to October – November 2020 to see the SCO chains 2 successes outside in the elite (3).
New recruit from Lens, Mathew Ryan displayed 74.3 % of AZ stops in 2023-24, 2nd higo ratio for an Eredivisie goalkeeper at least 10 games behind the current Marseillais Jeffrey de Lange (74.7 % with Go Ahead Eagles).
