Lens - Olympique Marseille predictions

With 2.28 on home win, the ground is level and three points are everyone’s to take. However, we’d still recommend backing Lens who should end up victorious in the end against Olympique Marseille.

With the betting odds being what they are, this match could still go either way. Still, the fact that Olympique Marseille are generally the weaker team makes this match an uphill battle for them.

Lens secured a close victory at home last round by scoring a second-half decider against Nantes. Their home supporters expected more, though, considering they entered as clear favourites but spent most of the match locked in a stalemate.

Things went downhill quickly for Olympique Marseille in the last round against Auxerre. The biggest online bookmakers saw them as huge favourites to pick up three points but they ended up losing the plot in the early game. Having gone behind in the first half, they failed to recover and in the end recorded a harsh 1:3 away loss.

Results and standings notwithstanding, Olympique Marseille have run into some defensive issues in this stretch of the Ligue 1. In the past 3 matches, they allowed more than 5 goals to their opponents, which may be cause for concern for their supporters.

Lens’s performance in the Ligue 1 so far has been far from ideal. Their current 8th spot is nothing to write home about, though it’s still too early in the season to make any hard judgments. Moving upward will be no easy task, however, and European football seems like a dream too big at the moment.

Olympique Marseille are going up against very unfavourable odds this Saturday – most bookmakers price an away win in this game at 3.21. That said, they managed to climb up to number 3rd in the standings in the opening rounds of the season, which speaks well for their current form.

The odds being what they are, remember that they were priced with various injuries in mind. The hosts reported that Jimmy Cabot, Ruben Aguilar, Hervé Koffi, Martín Satriano will have to sit this one out, while Olympique Marseille will have to make do without Rubén Blanco, Amine Harit, Derek Cornelius, Valentin Carboni.

Our advice is to stay on the safe side and go for the Over 2.5 Goals market. It’s reliable, very probable, and available at odds of 1 if you use the 1xbet sportsbook.