Racing Club de Lens vs FC Nantes, Ligue 1 2025-26 REGULAR SEASON
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Overview
Match Preview
Racing Club de Lens vs FC Nantes — Ligue 1 at Stade Bollaert-Delelis.
- Racing Club de Lens 34 games · 70 pts (2025/26)
- FC Nantes 33 games · 23 pts (2025/26)
Match Details
- Referee Mathieu Vernice
- Assistant 1 Florian Goncalves de Araujo (France)
- Assistant 2 Erwan Finjean
18 games this season 🟨 0.9/game ⚽ 3.1 goals/game 🟥 1 totalStandings
# Team P Pts 1 Paris Saint-Germain FC 34 76 2 Racing Club de Lens 34 70 3 Lille OSC 34 61 4 Olympique Lyonnais 34 60 5 Olympique de Marseille 34 59 6 Stade Rennais FC 1901 34 59 7 AS Monaco FC 34 54 8 RC Strasbourg Alsace 34 53 9 FC Lorient 34 45 10 Toulouse FC 33 44 11 Paris FC 34 44 12 Stade Brestois 29 34 39 13 Angers SCO 34 36 14 Le Havre AC 34 35 15 AJ Auxerre 34 34 16 OGC Nice 34 32 17 FC Nantes 33 23 18 FC Metz 34 17 Head-to-Head
Recent Form
Date Opponent H/A Score Result 08 May FC Nantes H 1–0 W 02 May OGC Nice A 1–1 D 24 Apr Stade Brestois 29 A 3–3 D 17 Apr Toulouse FC H 3–2 W 04 Apr Lille OSC A 0–3 L 20 Mar Angers SCO H 5–1 W Date Opponent H/A Score Result 08 May Racing Club de Lens A 0–1 L 02 May Olympique de Marseille H 3–0 W 26 Apr Stade Rennais FC 1901 A 1–2 L 22 Apr Paris Saint-Germain FC A 0–3 L 19 Apr Stade Brestois 29 H 1–1 D 11 Apr AJ Auxerre A 0–0 D Season Stats
Racing Club de Lens FC Nantes #2 Position #17 70 Points 23 34 Played 33 22 / 4 / 8 W / D / L 5 / 8 / 20 66 Scored 29 35 Conceded 52 +31 GD -23 2.06 PPG 0.70 65% Win % 15% Key Stats
67% Both Teams to Score
H2H (12 games)58% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history36% Clean Sheets
Racing Club de Lens this season24% Clean Sheets
FC Nantes this seasonRacing Club de Lens are 2nd (70 pts). FC Nantes are 17th (23 pts).
Goal Timing (This Season)
Racing Club de Lens0-15–/316-301/231-452/246-603/261-753/–76+3/2■ Scored ■ ConcededFC Nantes0-151/216-30–/–31-451/146-603/161-75–/–76+–/3■ Scored ■ Conceded -
Events
Match Events
- 0' KICK OFF: FC Nantes gets underway.
- 5' It looks surprising Racing Club de Lens does not make any changes. Ibrahima Sissoko has some obvious troubles when approaching to the goal.
- 10' The teams are not in a rush to score plenty of goals. It might look strange considering Racing Club de Lens that had 444 games and scored 418 goals.
- 15' Abdallah Sima is having his name booked by the referee on 15.
- 20' Spectators are craving for more action. Both teams play very cautiously. They need to put some more energy.
- 25' It looks like no one’s ball. Racing Club de Lens is used to counterattacking playing. None of the sides are ready to take the lead.
- 30' FC Nantes started playing very sharply right from the kick off. However, it slowed down the tempo rapidly by 30.
- 35' While there is no rush on the pitch, let’s have a look at some stats. Chidozie Awaziem made 489 appearances and scored 0 goals. He is very likely to score a goal today.
- 36' That looks like a foul for a card for Andrija Bulatovic.
- 41' Players seem to put ease on their energy level Spectators hardly appreciate such approach. Teams need to speed up the tempo.
- 46' Although teams showed high tempo form the start, they seem to slow down a bit. Both sides really need to catch a fire. Otherwise, we have another goalless match.
- 51' Racing Club de Lens looks like a favorite considering 2 games won in last 2 matches with its main striker Mezian Soares scoring 1 goals.
- 56' While players are taking a pause, let’s have a look at their stats. The teams met 2 times this season with Racing Club de Lens winning 100% of all matches.
- 61' Racing Club de Lens is showing some good football. However, Racing Club de Lens are ready to play back every minute. It might result in some problems for the home side. The game will hardly remain goalless.
- 66' Matthis Abline needs to be pretty careful with his discipline considering 0 Yellow cards this season.
- 71' Goal! Abdallah Sima scores his 37 goal in 166 matches.
- 75' It’s a booking for FC Nantes player. Ali Yousef gets a card.
- 79' GOAL! Mezian Soares scores on 79.
- 84' FC Nantes is defending very well tonight not leaving a chance for their rivals to get through for a goal.
- 89' The referee is likely to let players tackle, as he already missed some meaty challenges during opening seconds. He is still to establish what should not be done by the players and what is acceptable on the pitch. It’s going to be a tough game for Wesley Said suffering a number of foals already.
- Full Time. Racing Club de Lens beats FC Nantes
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Lineups
Racing Club de Lens Lineups
3-4-2-1Starting XI
- 14
- 20
- 22
- 11
- 21
- 19
- 6
- 40
- 25
- 38
- 5
Bench
- 27
- 2
- 16
- 7
- 18
- 26
- 32
- 4
- 41
Coach Pierre SageFC Nantes Lineups
3-1-4-2Starting XI
- 3
- 24
- 1
- 28
- 37
- 6
- 26
- 8
- 21
- 10
- 22
Bench
- 20
- 30
- 31
- 19
- 17
- 66
- 11
- 72
- 2
Coach Vahid Halilhodžić -
H2H
H2H Top Scorers
Player Goals Moses Simon 5 David Pereira da Costa 3 Gael Kakuta 3 Imran Louza 2 Florian Sotoca 2 Randal Kolo Muani 2 Neil El Aynaoui 2 Arnaud Kalimuendo 2 Head to Head
Racing Club de Lens Form
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Predictions
Prediction accuracy2 / 42.21 Racing Club de Lens xGExpected GoalsDixon-Coles · Bivariate Poisson · Neg. Binomial · Elo0.72 FC Nantes xGI would bet for: Racing Club de Lens to win 68% + Over 2.5 goals 55%Match Result
✓ CorrectActual: Racing Club de Lens winBoth Teams to Score
✓ CorrectAvg goals/match: 2.93Actual: No — clean sheetOver / Under Goals
✗ O/U 2.5Line Over Under ± 0.5 93% 7% ± 1.5 79% 21% ± 2.5 55% 45% ± 3.5 34% 66% ± 4.5 18% 82% Double Chance
Racing Club de Lens or Draw 88%Draw or FC Nantes 32%Racing Club de Lens or FC Nantes 80%Half-Time Result
✗ WrongActual: Draw at HTCorrect Score
✓ In top 122 – 0 12.9%1 – 0 Actual3 – 0 9.2%1 – 1 9.2%2 – 1 9.1%0 – 0 6.9%3 – 1 6.7%4 – 0 5.1%4 – 1 3.8%2 – 2 3.3%0 – 1 3.2%1 – 2 2.9%Asian Handicap — Racing Club de Lens
Handicap Racing Club de Lens covers Push FC Nantes covers -2.5 26% — 74% -2 26% 21% 53% -1.5 47% — 53% -1 47% 23% 30% -0.5 70% — 30% +0.5 90% — 10% +1 90% 7% 3% +1.5 97% — 3% +2 97% 2% 1% +2.5 99% — 1% Clean Sheet
Racing Club de Lens keeps clean sheet 49% ✗FC Nantes keeps clean sheet 12% ✓Predictions are statistical estimates based on season form, H2H history, and a Poisson model. Not financial advice.