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Reims vs Lens Prediction & Betting tips
In a repeat of the 1 / 64th finals of the Coupe de France last season, Stade de Reims takes on Sunday afternoon against RC Lens. Does the PhD student know how to win this season?
Stade de Reims:
The players of Stade de Reims are proud to look back on 2018. The team, who finished seventh in the Ligue 2 in the season 2016-2017, was convincing champion of the same Ligue 2 and after the first half of the season is on top shared seventh place in the Ligue 1 with 26 points and a goal difference of -3 (15-18). In the last six games, nine runs were collected by, among other things, draws on a visit to Olympique Marseille and Lille and only one loss against Toulouse.
The star of Stade de Reims this season is Edouard Mendy. The French goalkeeper knew this season in nine of nineteen matches to keep his goal clean. Only Alphonse Areola and Gianluigi Buffon from Paris Saint-Germain did statistically slightly better when we considered all goalkeepers who had at least five league matches, but that does not make Mendy’s performance any better.
RC Lens:
Last season RC Lens finished deep in the right-hand row of the Ligue 2 in a fourteenth position with only 43 points after 38 games, but this season the team of Philippe Montanier is doing a lot better. After the first half of the season, the team is in a neat third place with 32 points out of nineteen matches and a goal difference of +11 (27-16), but the deficit in second place, which gives right to direct promotion is due to a defeat and a draw in the last two games of 2018 already increased to six points.
The star of the Montanier team this season is the Senegalese striker Yannick Gomis. In nineteen games, the striker reached nine goals, putting him in a tie in fourth place on the top scoreboard of the Ligue 2. His goals last season when he scored twelve times in the Ligue 2 almost overtook the Senegalese, but the first place on the top scorer list, which is now being overtaken by Gaƫtan Charbonier from Stade Brestois, coincidentally a former player of Stade Reims, seems out of range.
Reims vs Lens head to head matches
17.03.18 L2 Reims Lens 3 : 1
03.12.17 COU Lens Reims 3 : 2 (1 : 1)
21.10.17 L2 Lens Reims 0 : 1
18.03.17 L2 Reims Lens 0 : 2
22.10.16 L2 Lens Reims 1 : 1