Saint-Etienne vs Lens: prediction for the Ligue 1 match
On January 15, Saints will host the Blood and Golds in the Ligue 1 match. What to expect from this game? The answer is in our prediction.

Command Analysis

Saint-Etienne

In this season Saint-Etienne got off to a great start of a French Cup, beating Lyon-Duchere (1:0) and Jura Sud (4:1) at first stages. But situation is different in Ligue 1, after 19 rounds The White-Greens have two victories and six draws to their name, which brought 12 points and a bottom spot in the standings.
Team has the worst goal-scoring result in the league, they put the ball into the net only 17 times this season. In two most recent rounds hosts suffered defeats to Reims (0:2) and Nantes (0:1).
Ramirez, Green, Moucoudi and Hamouma won't feature today.

Lens

Lens got off to a great start in the French Cup, after a victory over Stade Poitevin team eliminated Lille from the competition. After 20 rounds of the current Ligue 1 season The Blood and Golds have eight victories and six draws, which brought 30 points and a 6th spot in the standings.
Visitors' offensive line is looking great, they scored 34 goals. After two consecutive defeats to Nantes (2:3) and Nice (1:2) Franck Haise's men recorded a victory over Rennes (1:0).
Haidara, Farinez, Machado and Ganagoare unavailable today.
Trends
СтавкаCorrect score 1:1
3 out of 5 most recent head-to-head matches ended in a draw

СтавкаGoals in both halves - no
This bet played in 3 out of 4 most recent head-to-head matches

СтавкаCorners: total under 9,5
This bet played in 3 out of 6 most recent matches of Saint-Etienne

Tip and bets
In this match we offer to place a bet on the hosts. Saint-Etienne completely failed the start of a season and no one is expecting victories from the team now. Lens lost focus in recent matches and it affected their results. Saints also have big motivation and they are in a good mood after a victory in the French Cup.
Our prediction - Asian handicap (0) on Saint-Etienne
We think that the outcome of this game might be decided by a one single mistake. Opponents rarely score many goals and we are not expecting that from them today.
Our second bet is on total under 2,5 goals