Lens vs Toulouse prediction, odds and how to watch

Club Brugge were ruthless where it mattered, beating Lens 3-0 in the Champions League despite being outshot and outpossessed for large spells. Lens created chances and wasted them. Brugge took theirs. End of.

Lens picked up a convincing 3-1 win at Troyes on Saturday evening, with Timothé Nkada's first-half strike and a Florian Thauvin-inspired second half proving too much for a Troyes side that had the ball but none of the cutting edge. A calamitous own goal set the tone for a night Troyes will want to forget quickly.

Toulouse were ruthless and clinical at Le Mans on Friday night, winning 3-0 with goals from Jacen Russell-Rowe, Aron Dønnum, and Casper Tengstedt to record a dominant away victory in Ligue 1.

Sporting CP made it look straightforward in northern France, with Luis Suárez and Issa Doumbia scoring either side of half-time to hand Lens a deserved defeat. Connor Maguire breaks down exactly where Lens failed and why Sporting deserved every bit of it.

Lens host Toulouse on Saturday evening with both sides leaking goals and neither able to keep a clean sheet consistently. This one has the look of a match where the basics get tested early.

Lens have kept zero clean sheets in their last five Ligue 1 matches. Paris FC have kept four in ten outings and arrive at Stade Bollaert on the back of three wins from five. Something has to give.

Troyes arrive in Toulouse having lost all five of their completed Ligue 1 matches, conceding fifteen goals along the way. This is not a contest. It is a reckoning.

Toulouse have not kept a clean sheet in their last five Ligue 1 matches. Strasbourg have scored in every single one of theirs. Something has to give.