Engaging in a straight shootout for the consolation prize of Europa League football, Lens and Sevilla lock horns at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis in their final Champions League Group B encounter on Tuesday.
The hosts hold a three-point advantage over the winless Europa League holders and simply need to avoid defeat to deny Los Palanganas another shot at redemption in the continent's secondary tournament.
Six goals from six different scorers sent Arsenal through to the last 16 as group winners, and with PSV Eindhoven also completing an astonishing comeback over Sevilla on the penultimate matchday, Lens' first Champions League adventure in 21 years will be ending at the first hurdle.
However, the third-placed Sang et Or have their Europa League fate in their own hands and will drop into the knockout round playoffs of Europe's secondary tournament if they can take at least a point off their visitors on Tuesday, but defeat would eliminate them from Europe entirely given their inferior goal difference.
A point was all that Haise's men managed to clean from their most recent Ligue 1 encounter away to Montpellier HSC on Friday, failing to convert their 65% possession into anything meaningful, although that bore draw did extend Lens' unbeaten streak in the French top flight to 10 matches.
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