{"id":11003,"date":"2026-10-22T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bankrollatlas.com\/fr\/matchs\/after-bruges-lens-return-to-bollaert-to-face-third-placed-paris-fc\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T23:12:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:12:44","slug":"lens-paris-fc-prediction-2026-10-24","status":"publish","type":"ba_match","link":"https:\/\/bankrollatlas.com\/en\/matches\/football\/ligue-1\/lens-paris-fc-prediction-2026-10-24\/","title":{"rendered":"After Bruges, Lens return to Bollaert to face third-placed Paris FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday night Lens sank in Bruges; on Saturday they return to league duty at Bollaert against Ligue 1’s third-placed side, Liam Rosenior’s Paris FC. The market has not finished moving on this fixture: prices have kept drifting towards the Parisian club, and on Friday the Lens win trades at 2.49 with 1xbet, the Paris FC win at 2.87, close to a level contest. This price has gone the wrong way, and I am taking the Lens win, at a small stake. On Friday evening the match was still on at Bollaert<\/a>, while Toulouse-Troyes and PSG-Lyon were postponed because of Saturday’s protests.<\/p>\n

The last three matches of each team sum the fixture up, with scores read from the side of the team named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nTeam<\/th>\nOpponent<\/th>\nVenue<\/th>\nCompetition<\/th>\nScore<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
21\/10<\/td>\nLens<\/td>\nClub Brugge<\/td>\naway<\/td>\nChampions League<\/td>\n0-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17\/10<\/td>\nLens<\/td>\nEstac Troyes<\/td>\naway<\/td>\nLigue 1<\/td>\n3-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13\/10<\/td>\nLens<\/td>\nSporting CP<\/td>\nhome<\/td>\nChampions League<\/td>\n0-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18\/10<\/td>\nParis FC<\/td>\nRennes<\/td>\nhome<\/td>\nLigue 1<\/td>\n4-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/10<\/td>\nParis FC<\/td>\nLorient<\/td>\naway<\/td>\nLigue 1<\/td>\n0-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19\/09<\/td>\nParis FC<\/td>\nStrasbourg<\/td>\nhome<\/td>\nLigue 1<\/td>\n2-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Seventeen shots in Bruges, no goal<\/h2>\n

Lens took seventeen shots in Belgium, put six on target and scored none. Cahuzac pointed to a realism still to be worked on<\/a>; Udol, on RMC, put it more bluntly: \u201cwe have to be killers in the box\u201d. In the Champions League, Lens have not scored since the win over Slavia; in Ligue 1, they remain the league’s second-highest scorers, 14 goals, with back-to-back wins over Lyon and then at Troyes.<\/p>\n

The run of fixtures is heavy: four matches in twelve days between Lyon, Sporting, Troyes and Bruges, and only three days between Belgium and Bollaert. On Friday, Cahuzac picked his side: “either we complain and do nothing but cry, or we work with our strengths and move forward”. He wants a stable core and less rotation. In the last twenty minutes, Lens legs may feel it: that is where the game could slip away.<\/p>\n

Bollaert, the best home record in Ligue 1, cracked twice<\/h2>\n

Since last year, Lens hold the best home record in the league: 16 wins and 48 points. The house has still let two of its last four home games go, against Lorient and against Sporting, two defeats without scoring. Recent meetings favour Lens as well: 5-0 last February, 2-1 in October 2025.<\/p>\n

Third in the table, light on their travels<\/h2>\n

Paris FC sit third on 14 points, in a five-team pack alongside Lyon, PSG, Lille and Monaco. At home, Rosenior’s side have beaten Strasbourg and then Rennes in a wild game; on the road, they are a different team: three goals in three away matches, the thirteenth-best away attack in the league, and that goalless defeat at Lorient. A brittle defence has conceded seven goals in seven rounds, and the attack leans on Sinayoko, six goals, the league’s second-top scorer. Behind the scenes, the club is changing hands: Pierre Ferracci is leaving the presidency and Antoine Arnault is expected to succeed him.<\/p>\n

Ganiou operated on, Gradit out of the eleven<\/h2>\n