📊 Form Guide

RC Lens

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RC Lens fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 0-5 Ligue 1 triumph vs Paris FC.

In that game, RC Lens managed 42% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For RC Lens, the goals were scored by Wesley Saïd (24', 38'), Florian Thauvin (58') and Rayan Fofana (90', 95'). Paris FC had 11 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target.

RC Lens haven’t had any problems with scoring, hitting the target every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 games.

They have totted up the amount of 15 during that time and have conceded a total of 6.

Looking at the pre-match facts, RC Lens:

• have not been beaten in the league by Monaco in their previous 3 games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 10 league matches at home. Visiting teams have certainly not had an easy time of it here.

Monaco

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Since being beaten in their last game against Paris Saint-Germain in Champions League action, Monaco will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Monaco had 20% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Monaco was Folarin Balogun (1', 18'). On the other side, Paris Saint-Germain had 30 attempts at goal with 10 of them on target. Désiré Doué (29', 67') and Achraf Hakimi (41') scored for Paris Saint-Germain.

A succession of hard-working showings by the Monaco defensive unit has seen their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their past 6 outings in total. During the same period, their own forwards have managed to score 8. Despite that, we must now wait to see whether that pattern shall continue on here in this game or not.

Analysis of their past results shows that Monaco:

• are unbeaten in their previous 2 away league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 5 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 02/09/2023, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with RC Lens winning 2 of those games, Monaco 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 23 in all at an average of 3.83 goals per meeting.

The last league meeting between the two was Ligue 1 match day 12 on 08/11/2025 when it ended Monaco 1-4 RC Lens.

That day, Monaco had 50% possession and 16 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer was Folarin Balogun (37').

RC Lens got 20 attempts at goal with 12 of them on target. Odsonne Édouard (21'), Wesley Saïd (40', 60') and Mamadou Sangaré (45') scored.

The match was refereed by Bastien Dechepy.

ℹ️ Team News: RC Lens

It seems likely that Les Artésiens will probably go for a 3-4-2-1 formation for this one, utilising Robin Risser, Nidal Celik, Pierre Ganiou, Malang Sarr, Ruben Aguilar, Adrien Thomasson, Andrija Bulatovic, Matthieu Udol, Florian Thauvin, Wesley Said and Odsonne Edouard.

📰 Team News: Monaco

We reckon that Les Rouge et Blanc seem likely to elect for a 3-5-2 formation, starting the game with Philipp Koehn, Jordan Teze, Thilo Kehrer, Wout Faes, Krepin Diatta, Lamine Camara, Aladji Bamba, Mamadou Coulibaly, Simon Adingra, Mika Biereth and Folarin Balogun.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that Monaco have enough to find the net against this RC Lens team, although that probably won’t be as many as they will have scored against them.

Our selection here is for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning margin for RC Lens after the 90. Could easily see this go either way.

Victor Martins, 15:04 21/02/2026