Review Of The Champions League Match Lens Vs Arsenal: Serious Threat Of London Cannons

Arsenal will travel to RC Lens' headquarters in the Champions League. (Photo: Twitter/@Arsenal)

JAKARTA Arsenal will play an away match to RC Lens' headquarters in the second gameweek of the European Champions League 2023/2024. The visitors are a serious threat to the hosts.

Meriam London is scheduled to clash with Lens for the second match of Group B at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis, France, Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 02.00 WIB. The visitors came after passing the first match on an extraordinary basis.

Mikel Arteta's men beat PSV Eindhoven with a score of four goals without reply at the Emirates Stadium. Meanwhile, Lens drew 1-1 against host Sevilla to take a point from this event.

However, this result is an extraordinary journey for Lens over the past three years since rising from Ligue 2. The result is more than enough after 21 years of waiting to return to this most prestigious event.

The Blood and Gold got one point dramatically, coming back from one goal that was scored by the opposing team when the game had only been running for ten minutes, to get one point they deserved.

The result was a turning point for Franck Haise after his team failed to win in their first five league games. In that period they were only able to get one point from a 1-1 draw with Rennes in the second week of the league.

Since traveling to Sevilla headquarters, Lens has won the Ligue 1 match in a row, which is to win home to Toulouse 2-1 and beat Strasbourg 1-0 in last weekend's away game.

The two wins took them out of the relegation zone after seven league games. They now have seven points or one point ahead of Lorient who are in the red zone.

Lens' difficulties at the start of the season were partly caused by the departure of several key players, such as Lois Openda and Seko Fofana. However, their new players are now starting to find rhythms.

Meanwhile, Arsenal, who returned to the European Champions League after a six-year absence, immediately marked their progress by beating PSV, a team that has never won a single point at the Eredivisie this season.

However, not only in this competition did they appear impressive. The Gunners are also unbeaten after seven league games with five wins and two draws, including a 4-0 win over Bournemouth last weekend.

Arsenal are now one of only two teams in the Premier League that have yet to lose this season. In addition, they came to this game after winning their last four away games in all competitions.

Interestingly, in the four latest away wins they managed to record a clean sheet. This statistic is certainly a signal for Lens so that they need to be vigilant with the visitors if they don't want to get disappointing results.

Player Composition Predictions:

Lens (3-4-2-1): Samba; Gradit, Danso, Medina; Frankowski, Samed, Mendy, Machado; Fulgini, Sotoca; Wahi

Arsenal (4-3-3): Raya; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko; Odegaard, Rice, Vieira; Trossard, Nketiah, Jesus