French League Football
Wednesday night saw Bordeaux hold on to a 1-0 win against St Etienne to
give me 3 out of 4 winners since I returned from my break.
Never one to rest on my laurels and always aware that you are only as good
as your last winning bet I am staying yet again with the French league
today and following my own advice by backing Lens to beat Strasbourg in
the Ligue One fixture today.
I opposed Lens on Tuesday when they beat Valenciennes as though they had
shown signs of a revival I wanted to see if their away form held up
against a strong home side which it did.
Lens are now up to 16th in the league and in their last home game they
beat champions Lyon 3-0, previously they had beaten Nancy who are in 3rd
place also 3-0 in the league Cup so are definitely heading in the right
direction.. Their home form this season in the league reads W4 D2 L2 F13
A9 and if they continue their improvement on the road they will soon find
themselves in the top 10.
Strasbourg were promoted at the end of last season and are in 14th place
in the league 2 points ahead of Lens going into today’s game. They have a
record on the road this season of 3 D2 L5 F9 A16 though their last away
win was back in October when they beat Lille 3-0 since then they have
picked up 1 point out of a possible 12 away from home and that was in
their last away game at 18th placed Auxerre.
Head to head over the last 10 games favours Lens at home with 3 wins and a
draw in the home matches played during that period, in fact you have to go
back to November 96 to find Strasbourg’s last win at Lens when they picked
up a 2-1 win.
Aug 25, 07 Ligue 1 Racing Strasbourg 2 - 1 RC Lens
Feb 4, 06 Ligue 1 RC Lens 2 - 1 Racing Strasbourg
Sep 18, 05 Ligue 1 Racing Strasbourg 1 - 1 RC Lens
Jan 29, 05 Ligue 1 RC Lens 2 - 1 Racing Strasbourg
Sep 18, 04 Ligue 1 Racing Strasbourg 2 - 2 RC Lens
Jan 31, 04 Ligue 1 RC Lens 2 - 1 Racing Strasbourg
Aug 23, 03 Ligue 1 Racing Strasbourg 0 - 1 RC Lens
Apr 5, 03 Ligue 1 RC Lens 1 - 1 Racing Strasbourg
Nov 9, 02 Ligue 1 Racing Strasbourg 2 - 0 RC Lens
Feb 7, 01 Ligue 1 Racing Strasbourg 1 - 0 RC Lens
Early team news in that Strasbourg will definitely be without African
Nations Cup participants Mamadou Bah and Jacob Mulenga, while Lens are
missing Aruna Dindane and Adama Coulibaly, who are playing in the same
tournament, but defender Marco Ramos should return after suspension.
Extrabet are best price 4/5 a Lens win and generally you can get 5/6 which
in my opinion is a solid enough price on a day when there are to many
short priced favourites and not enough value bets.
So I hope my French tipping ends the week as it started it.
Good luck
Silverfox.
