Lens vs Auxerre prediction 14.01.2023

• Competition: Ligue 1
• Date: 14.01.2023.
• Kickoff: 16:00 CET/17:00 UTC
• Venue: Stade Bollaert-Delelis (Lens)

Lens, now it can be said definitively, is having the best season in the last 20 years. Two draws in the previous 3 rounds may have slowed down this excellent team a bit, but they still hold the high 2nd position in the table and the first-placed PSG is only 6 points further. What is most important for Lens now is to reach a position for the Champions League, which would be an enormous success. They have won all 9 matches at home this season.

This will most likely be a season for Auxerre that they will spend fighting for survival. They lost the previous 4 matches and now the club is in the danger zone in 18th place with 13 points won. Survival is certainly not an impossible mission, but the desperate form despite the stable health of the team is what can worry the trainer. Auxerre have conceded 40 goals so far, which is more than any other team in Ligue 1 in the 2022/23 season

Lens vs Auxerre pick: LENS TO WIN AND COVER -1.5 SPREAD

Without any doubt, Lens is a better team, in much better shape and the fatigue of the players is at a much higher level than the rivals. The home team has not lost in the previous 12 matches, against Auxerre they have only one defeat in the previous 15 years at this stadium. A lot is on the side of the home team, and there is a significant criterion for betting on the victory of Lens, but it is certainly not bad to try with backing on Home to cover AH -1.5 spread.