Lens will be aiming to make it three successive wins in Ligue 1 when they host Lille in the Derby du Nord on Sunday.
The visitors, meanwhile, head to Lens four points ahead of their opponents after beating Le Havre last weekend.
However, Franck Haise's side have looked more like their older selves in recent weeks, with their 1-1 draw away to Sevilla in their opening Champions League fixture seemingly stopping the rot in terms of defeats. Selling their star striker Lois Openda to RB Leipzig during the summer was always likely to take time to overcome, both mentally and tactically, but they appear to be getting there.
Since holding Sevilla, The Blood and Gold have beaten Toulouse and Strasbourg to move outside of the relegation places in the league, before they came from behind to defeat English Premier League runners-up Arsenal at Stade Bollaert-Delelis on Tuesday evening.
Gabriel Jesus had provided the visitors with the lead inside 14 minutes, but goals from Adrien Thomasson and Elye Wahi handed their side a famous victory, with their prospects of reaching the knockout stage of Europe's elite competition significantly boosted in the process.
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