Lens vs Arsenal: 5 things you need to know ahead of the Friendly game

French Ligue 2 side RC Lens will host The Gunners of England on Friday July 22, 2016 in a Club Friendly game at Stade Bollaert-Delelis (Lens)

kick off

Pre-Season Friendly,
Date: Friday, July 22, 2016
Kick-off: 19:00 UK Time
Venue: Stade Bollaert-Delelis (Lens)French

Where to watch the game

Arsenal's pre-season matches can be heard live on Arsenal's official site. Live TV coverage for the match against RC Lens  is available on Arsenal apps and Sky Sports respectively.

Team News

Lens have been involved in just one club friendly game this summer, they were victorious in the game which was against a Belgium side. Lens fought so hard to beat Waasland-Beveren 2-1 at home on Wednesday 13th July.

Arsenal are going to kick off their pre season matches and have a chance to test their new signing Granit Xhaka, but on the other hands will miss some ot their stars due to euro breaks the likes of  Laurent Koscielny, Olivier Giroud, Aaron Ramsey and Mesut Ozil will be unavailable for the pre-season tour owing to their participation at Euro 2016, while Alexis Sanchez is also likely to miss out owing to injury 

Previous Encounters

Arsenal and lens have played four games against each other, two Champions league games in 1998 and two Uefa cup game in 2000. Arsenal had won twice against Lens, lost one and drew one.

Predictions

Though it is a friendly games it will be worthy it to watch and tough since players will take  the opportunity to proves the capability to establish their position in their club first team  

Predicted results arsenal 1 – 0 Lens