St Etienne - Lens (Ligue 1)

St Etienne will try to get back to winning ways with a match against Lens, which will give a start to the 24th round in the French Ligue 1.

The team of Saint-Etienne is in a series of three games without a victory in the championship, losing two of them. This logically led to a collapse in the standings and "greens" have to fight for a place in the UEFA.

Coach Christophe Galtier has problems in attacking plan. In the absence of the main striker Max Gradel, his colleagues Ricky van Wolfswinkel and Mevlut Erdinc still have not scored in the New Year.

The situation in the camp of Lens is not better. The team led by Antoine Kombouare is 19th in the standings, three points from the danger zone and still does not know the taste of victory in 2015. As a guest, the team failed to win in their last six meetings.

In 12 of the last 15 games of St Etienne in Ligue 1 have fallen under 2.5 goals and the same goes for nine of the last ten games of Lens.

In the last six matches between the two teams, St Etienne has four wins and in the last three matches did not allow a goal from today`s opponent.

St Etienne is the big favorite in the match with odds of 1.57 for their victory, with a draw at 3.80 and 6.50 for the guests of Lens. But success will not come easy and the hosts will most likely to earn a minimum score.

Predictions St Etienne - Lens:
1 @ 1.57 (7/10)
Under 2.5 goals @ 1.74 (8/10)