Nice vs Lens Ligue 1 Match Preview or Key Statistics ✅
✅Nice have won only three of their last 25 Ligue 1 games against Lens (D13 L9), failing to score in six of their last seven. However, Nice won the most recent encounter between these two teams, back in May 2015 at home (2-1).
✅Nice have lost only once in their last 12 Ligue 1 games (W5 D6), a 1-3 defeat to Nimes in February.
✅Lens will play their first Ligue 1 game since May 2015, when they beat Nantes 1-0. It is the end of a five-season streak without being in the top-flight for Lens never suffering a longer such drought in their history.
✅Lens have lost 11 of their last 14 Ligue 1 games (W2 D1), but none of their current players were at the club during this streak between February and May 2015.
✅Nice have scored at least one goal in their last 18 home Ligue 1 games, being the only top-flight team to score in each of their matches on home soil last season. It is their longest streak in Ligue 1 since May 1975-February 1978 (55).
✅Nice are unbeaten in their last six Ligue 1 games against a newly-promoted side (W3 D3), since August 2018, when they lost 0-1 at home to Reims on the opening weekend that season.
✅Nice have won three of their last six opening Ligue 1 game of a season (L3), as many as in their previous 24 (D6 L15).
✅Lens have lost each of their last five opening Ligue 1 game of a season, after winning their first two, including a win against Nice back in August 1949 (2-1).
✅Nice's recruit Morgan Schneiderlin comes back in Ligue 1 after 12 years and 200 games played in Premier League. If he plays, he would break a 4481 day drought without appearing in a Ligue 1 game since May 2008 (Marseille-Strasbourg), the fifth longest gap between two French top-flight games for a same player since 1950 after Samuel Lobé, Jonathan Zebina, Yohann Riviere and Olivier Auriac. Should he play,
✅Lens' new signing Ignatius Ganago could appear in his first Ligue 1 game for a side other than Nice - playing 52 games and scoring six goals with les Aiglons in the top-flight.
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