AS Monaco vs Lens Preview

Monaco’s unbeaten start to the season goes up against a Lens side who can’t seem to find any consistency at all, when the two meet at the Stade Louis II on Friday night.

Monaco haven’t lost since the opening weekend of the campaign, and Friday’s hosts arrive unbeaten in five — four wins and a draw. That run was checked slightly on Saturday, a 1-1 draw away at Strasbourg after Monaco came from behind to tie it up, but the three results before it were far more emphatic: a 2-1 win away at PSG, a 2-0 home win over Marseille at the Stade Louis II, and a 4-1 thrashing of Gornik Zabrze in the Europa Conference League. Further back, a 1-0 away win at Le Havre opened the sequence, meaning Monaco have won four of five and kept things tight enough at the back that only the draw has interrupted a genuinely strong run of form.

Lens, by contrast, have won two of their last five but haven’t strung two good results together — most recently held 2-2 away at Le Mans, a result that continues a pattern of Lens failing to see games out. Before that draw came a rare bright spot, a 3-2 away win at Slavia Prague in the Champions League, but sandwiched between Lens’s poorer moments this month – a 1-0 home loss to Lorient and a 2-1 defeat away at Strasbourg. Further back, the one genuinely convincing result in this sample was a 5-2 home win over Auxerre, which now feels a long way from where Lens currently find themselves.

Monaco have had the better of this fixture recently, winning two of the last five to Lens’s two, with the other meeting drawn. Most recently, Monaco won 3-2 away at Lens, and before that Lens stunned Monaco with a 4-1 win at the Stade Louis II — so while Monaco go into Friday with the head-to-head edge, Lens have shown they’re capable of doing damage in Monaco, making this a fixture that’s swung both ways in recent seasons rather than settled into a clear pattern either way.

Monaco sit 2nd on 10 points from four games, with Lens down in 10th on 4 points. A win for Monaco would take them to 13 points and, based on the current standings, above Lille and Rennes into 1st place.

In France, the match is broadcast on Ligue1+, DAZN France and Molotov. In Great Britain and Ireland Republic, coverage is via Ligue1+. In the United States, viewers can catch the action on beIN SPORTS, fuboTV or beIN SPORTS CONNECT.

Possible Lineups

AS Monaco (4-2-3-1)
Hradecky, Vanderson, Dier, Sane, Nazinho, Camara, Zakaria, Brunner, Golovin, Idumbo, Soubeir

Lens (3-4-2-1)
Risser, Gradit, Sima, Antonio, Aguilar, Cuisance, Bulatovic, Udol, Thauvin, Skoras, Edouard

AS Monaco Form

Result	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Competition	Date
🤝	Strasbourg	1-1	Monaco	L1	12.09.26
✅	PSG	1-2	Monaco	L1	04.09.26
✅	Monaco	2-0	Marseille	L1	30.08.26
✅	Monaco	4-1	Gornik Zabrze	UECL	27.08.26
✅	Le Havre	0-1	Monaco	L1	23.08.26

Lens Form

Result	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Competition	Date
🤝	Le Mans	2-2	Lens	L1	13.09.26
✅	Slavia Prague	2-3	Lens	CL	10.09.26
❌	Lens	0-1	Lorient	L1	05.09.26
❌	Strasbourg	2-1	Lens	L1	29.08.26
✅	Lens	5-2	Auxerre	L1	22.08.26

Head-to-Head

Home Team	Score	Away Team	Competition	Date
Lens	2-3	Monaco	L1	21.02.26
Monaco	1-4	Lens	L1	08.11.25
Lens	4-0	Monaco	L1	17.05.25
Monaco	1-1	Lens	L1	01.09.24
Lens	2-3	Monaco	L1	25.02.24

TV Listings / Streaming

Country	Channel
France	Ligue1+ / DAZN France / Molotov
Great Britain	Ligue1+
Ireland Republic	Ligue1+
Italy	Ligue1+
USA	beIN SPORTS / fuboTV / beIN SPORTS CONNECT
Germany	DAZN Germany / DAZN2 Germany
Spain	DAZN Spain
Canada	beIN Sports Canada / fuboTV Canada / Fanatiz Canada
Japan	DAZN Japan
Brazil	CazéTV

Table

POS.	TEAM	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	P	FORM
1	Lille	4	3	1	0	7	2	5	10	W W D W
2	Monaco	4	3	1	0	6	2	4	10	D W W W
3	Rennes	4	3	1	0	8	5	3	10	W W W D
4	Paris	4	2	2	0	6	2	4	8	D W W D
5	Olympique Lyonnais	4	2	2	0	6	2	4	8	D W D W
6	Strasbourg	4	2	1	1	9	8	1	7	D W W L
7	PSG	4	1	2	1	6	6	0	5	W L D D
8	Lorient	4	1	2	1	4	4	0	5	D W L D
9	Brest	4	1	2	1	6	6	0	5	L W D D
10	Lens	4	1	1	2	8	7	1	4	D L L W
11	Angers SCO	4	1	1	2	4	5	-1	4	D L W L
12	Troyes	4	1	1	2	4	9	-5	4	L L W D
13	Olympique Marseille	4	1	0	3	6	6	0	3	L L L W
14	Le Mans	4	0	3	1	7	8	-1	3	D D L D
15	Auxerre	4	1	0	3	5	11	-6	3	W L L L
16	Le Havre	4	0	2	2	2	4	-2	2	D L D L
17	Toulouse	4	0	2	2	4	7	-3	2	D L D L
18	Nice	4	0	2	2	1	5	-4	2	L D L D