FC Lorient vs Lens Ligue 1 Match Preview or Key Statistics 📰
📰Lens have won only 7% of their games against Lorient in Ligue 1 (1 win in 14 games), their worst win rate against teams they've faced 5+ times in the top-flight. Their only win against Lorient came back in October 2001 at the Moustoir (3-2).
📰Lorient have won their last five home games against Lens in Ligue 1, their best run on their soil against a team currently in the top-flight.
📰The Merlus have not conceded any goals in these five games. Only two of the last 16 games between promoted teams in Ligue 1 have seen the away team win (D4 L10): Amiens at Strasbourg in September 2017(1-0) and Nimes at Reims in May 2019 (3-0).
📰Lorient have lost five of their last seven league games-Ligue 1 + Ligue 2 combined (W2), as many as in their previous 31 (W19 D7).
📰Lorient are unbeaten in their last five home games in Ligue 1 (W3 D2), their best run in the top-flight since October 2013-February 2014 (7).
📰Lens have won none of their last 14 away games in Ligue 1 (03 L11), the worst run among current top-flight teams.
📰Lorient have kept a clean sheet only once in their last 16 home games in Ligue 1, against Caen in April 2017 (1-0).
📰Lens have conceded at least two goals in each of their last eight away Ligue 1 games (23 goals conceded overall).
📰Pierre-Yves Hamel has scored two of Lorient's last three goals against Lens in league games, both in Ligue 2. Vincent Le Goff has carried the ball forwards further than any Lorient player in league games (Ligue 1+ Ligue 2) since the beginning of last season (2527 meters).
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