🇫🇷 Lens vs Lorient 🇫🇷 — Prediction
Ligue 1 · Matchday 3 · Sat, 05 Sept 2026, 17:15 CEST · Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens
Our AI call, published before kickoff
2–1
Tipped scorers: Florian Thauvin (Lens) · Dilane Bakwa (Lens) · Jayden Russell-Rowe (Lorient)
How the crowd called it
Missed ✗
Final result: 0–1 · Tipped scorers hit: 0/3
Goals: Mamadou Koné (Lorient, 54')
Why we called it
Lens host newly promoted Lorient at a fortress Bollaert and are the clear favourites, with Thauvin, the side's top scorer so far this season, leading a front line featuring Bakwa and Haraldsson despite absences to Gradit, Baidoo and doubts over Saint-Maximin. Lorient are missing Abergel and carry several doubts, but they can still hurt teams through Russell-Rowe and Gboho. Classified as a clear-but-not-overwhelming home win, so I trim the margin to one goal: 2-1.
Prediction history
- 2–1 · 2026-09-02 — Initial prediction
- 2–1 · 2026-09-02 — Squad correction: Olivier Giroud plays for Lille, not Lens. Florian Thauvin, Lens' leading scorer this season, replaces him. Score unchanged.