Lille and PAOK will lock horns in the Europa League at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy on Thursday night.
Bruno Genisio’s hosts hit the ground running with a 2-1 win over Brann before claiming an eye-catching 1-0 win away at Roma on matchday two.
That pair of victories means that Lille are one of only six teams to have taken maximum points from their opening two league phase assignments.
Les Dogues’ will come into their latest continental clash off the back of a 2-0 success away at Nantes in Ligue 1 on Sunday.
PAOK, on the other hand, played out a goalless draw with Maccabi Tel Aviv in their opening match of the competition, and they have since slumped to a 3-1 loss at Celta Vigo.
However, Razvan Lucescu’s side will head to France in high spirits after moving to the summit of the Greek Super League thanks to a 2-0 win over AEK Athens last time out.
How the bookies view it: Lille to land another win
The bookmakers' odds suggest that Lille will make it three wins from three in this season’s Europa League on Thursday night, with a home success trading at 8/15 on Boylesports.
PAOK are as big as 4/1 with Boylesports to emerge from the Stade Pierre-Mauroy victorious while the draw is also deemed unlikely at 14/5 with the same firm.
Head to head: History book blank
Lille and PAOK will come up against each other for the first time ever on Thursday night. The French hosts last faced Greek opposition way back in 2006, defeating AEK Athens 3-1 in a Champions League group stage game.
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Having hit four goals across his eight appearances since signing for Lille, Hamza Igamane looks worthy of consideration for a goal or an assist here at 10/11 on Bet365. The former Rangers forward made the net bulge against Brann on matchday one.
PAOK will look to Georgios Giakoumakis for inspiration on Thursday night. The ex-Celtic striker looks a little overpriced to register a minimum of one shot on target during this contest at 5/6 with 888Sport.
Predicted line-ups
Alexsandro Marc-Aurele, Caillard and Ousmane Toure are all on the hosts' absentee list while both Nabil Bentaleb and Ngal’ayel Mukau are rated as doubtful;
As far as the visitors are concerned, they are sweating over the fitness of both Dimitris Chatsidis and Jiri Pavlenka.
Lille: Ozer; Meunier, Mandi, Mbemba, Verdonk; Correia, Bentaleb, Andre, Sahraoui; Haraldsson, Igamane
PAOK: Monastirlis; Sastre, Lovren, Michailidis, Rahman; Meite, Ozdoyev; Zivkovic, Camara, Konstantelias; Giakoumakis
Anything else catch the eye?
With Lille too short to side with at the above-mentioned odds, instead look for them to win alongside over 1.5 goals at 4/5 on Boylesports.
This formula would have been a winning one in four of the hosts’ six victories this season, including three of their last four.
As mentioned, this bet would have also paid out in PAOK's 3-1 loss away at Celta Vigo on matchday two.
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