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Last season Lens finished in Ligue 1 in 7th place and only 2 points behind Lyon who were in 6th place and had the opportunity to participate in the Europa League, for this season maybe Lens will try to do better and they can be part of one of the European competitions.
At the beginning of the season Lens managed to get two wins and one draw, clearly this is still much better than Lyon who only managed to get one win and two losses, in the next meeting I sure Lens will be able to get good results by beating Lyon.
Lyon game will only be able to show good quality when they play against much weaker team or play at home with an opponent who is not so strong, in the next match Lyon will play away and I doubt they can create competitive game.
For H2H actually this will never refer to being able to predict the results, but we can see the quality of both team which still shows that Lens is much more consistent so there will be pressure that makes it difficult for Lyon to be able to play like before when they got their first win.
Too soon to talk about the performance of Lyon in this season yet. So far they had three games and they got three points in these games they had. Strasbourg was the only team they could beat while even Strasbourg is not a strong team to say Lyon had hard work against them.
However, we can't forget in the last season Lyon was even about to get relegated but in the last new year they had improved and had much better performance. There is a chance to see the same thing from them in this season again.
Yes, it is still too early to talk about Lyon assessment, but at least in the first few matches like this, we can see picture of Lyon match that will meet team that has almost the same performance last season.
Lyon vs Lens match is not an easy match for Lyon and of course we can study and analyze a little for the course of the match later, I sure Lens is not team that can be easily defeated by Lyon as they previously defeated Strasbourg.
But Lens and Lyon are not stable team and have consistent performance from each season, for this season the same thing will likely happen where they walk to finish the competition mysteriously or cannot be predicted accurately, what is clear in this match is that Lens is the favorite.