Lens vs Olympique Marseille prediction and preview

Lens vs Olympique Marseille

Ligue 1 · Sunday 8 November 2026, 19:45 UTC · Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens

Lens · Olympique Marseille · Ligue 1 predictions

Lens host Olympique Marseille in Ligue 1 on Sunday 8 November 2026, kick-off 19:45 UTC at Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens. Lens are 9th in the table with 13 points from 9, while Olympique Marseille sit 6th on 15 points after 9 matches.

Lens come into the game with a L-W-L-W-L run in the league (2 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats in their last 5), while Olympique Marseille's recent sequence reads W-W-L-W-L. Over their last 6, Lens have scored 1.2 and conceded 1.5 goals per game, with 4 of those matches going over 2.5 goals and both teams scoring in 3. Olympique Marseille average 2.2 scored and 1.2 conceded across their last 6, with 2 clean sheets.

Head to head, Lens have 6 wins to Olympique Marseille's 4 across 10 meetings, with 0 draws. Those games averaged 2.7 goals, 6 finished with more than 2.5 goals and both teams scored in 6. The most recent meeting, on 24 Jan 2026, ended Olympique Marseille 3-1 Lens.

Lens list 4 absentees, including Abdallah Sima (injury), Odsonne Édouard (injury) and Ismaëlo Ganiou (injury). Abdallah Sima and Odsonne Édouard have featured heavily in recent matches. Olympique Marseille are without Derek Cornelius (injury). Willy Delajod is the appointed referee. Across 174 earlier matches in our data the average is 3.6 yellow cards per game and 0.4 penalties per game, and home sides won 41% of those games.

Bookmaker prices make Lens favourites. Probabilities describe uncertainty; they are not guarantees.