⚽Lyon vs Nantes
✅French Ligue 1, KO: 14:00 Oct 6, 2024, Groupama Stadium
🐦🔥Lyon go head-to-head against Nantes on Sunday. Read our Predictions and Betting Tips with Match Preview, Head-to-head stats (h2h) and Team Form Analysis.
Prediction for this Ligue 1 match
Buoyed by a hard-fought 2-1 win over Toulouse, Olympique Lyon will look to keep on climbing the standings when they face Nantes on home soil. Les Gones have been showing signs of improvement of late, but they must win Sunday’s clash if they are to rejoin the title race. Experienced attacker Alexandre Lacazette is a pushing for a start, while there are no fresh injury worries in the home team.
Les Canaris, on the other hand, aim to put an end to their three-game winless run in the French top flight, but given Lyon’s fine form, we predict that the visitors are going to return home with their hands empty. To make things even worse for the away team, forward Marcus Coco misses out through suspension, while the likes of Tino Kadewere, Jean-Kevin Duverne, Bahereba Guirassy, Fabien Centonze, and Adel Mahamoud are sidelined with injuries.
How the bookies view it: Bookies backing Lyon
Lyon are considered favourites among the bookies and priced at 4/5 by WK777 to claim the win. A victory for Nantes is valued at 100/30 by WK777, who is also offering odds of 11/4 for a draw.
Lyon vs Nantes Prediction
Lyon started off this season in a very unimpressive manner, conceding back-to-back defeats. The team won two, draw one and lost three of their six matches so far this season and will hope to gain the much needed positive momentum on Sunday, when they hosts Nantes.
Meanwhile, Nantes had a good start to this season as they won two, draw three and lost one in their six matches at the beginning of this season. Their spirits will be higher as they lost just once this season but the Lyon side is capable of turning things around in their favor.
Moving on, Lyon won the last two head-to-head clashes against Nantes. Lyon have an upper hand at this venue as they were unbeaten in 19 of the last 20 clashes against Nantes. Also, two of the past three meetings had goals from both ends.
Lyon’s chance of winning will be higher here if we consider the form of both at respective patches. Nantes have an inconsistent form on the road for quite some time now. They were winless in seven of the past 10 road trips across all competitions.
Meanwhile, Lyon was unbeaten in seven of their last 10 home outings and has won six in that stretch. Another thing to be noted is that the Lyon offense scored 8 in the past four home outings while their defense allowed in three of the past four. Also, the Nantes offense managed to score in four of their past five road trips despite of remaining winless.
For all the above reasons, we expect a win for the Lyon side on Sunday. The 2-1 correct score in favor of Lyon side is a highly possible tip to have your money on considering the goal trend of both at the moment. Over 2.5 goals tip is another good option here as six of the last eight home outings of Lyon have seen goal coming in that rate.
Highlighted Team (Nantes):
Founded on April 21, 1943 Nantes is a professional football club that compete in French Ligue 1. Les Canaris are considered one of the most famous French clubs and they had a lot of success during the sixties and the seventies. Nantes won their first Ligue 1 title in the 1964/1965 season and 36 years later (2000/2001) they clinched their eighth (last) domestic trophy.
Speaking of the club’s European success, les Canaris did well to make it to the Champions League semis in 1996, but Italian giants Juventus proved to be a big catch for the French outfit. Nantes welcome their rivals at La Beaujoire-Louis Fonteneau and the capacity of the stadium is 38.004.
The likes of Vahid Halilhodzic, Adel Selimi, Michel Der Zakarian, Viorel Moldovan, Mario Yepes, Marcel Desailly, Didier Deschamps, Claude Makelele, Christian Karembeu and Dimitri Payet are the notable footballers who played for the club in the past. Nantes are well known for their yellow jerseys and that is the reason why they are nicknamed the Canaries (les Canaris).
Head to head: Lyon have the edge
Lyon have a 28-12 advantage with 14 draws from 54 previous matches against Nantes. They also did the double last season, winning 1-0 at Groupama Stadium before a 3-1 victory in the reverse fixture.
Highlighted Player (Alexandre Lacazette):
Alexandre Lacazette is a hometown boy of Lyon, a powerful striker who went through the youth ranks of the French side to become one of the most important players for Les Gones. The 25-year-old forward was also a member of all France national team selections becoming a European champion at the age of 19 by scoring the winner in the final against Spain.
This goal gave him a reputation of a big game player, one he went on to uphold on various occasions at his club. Lacazette is a hard working forward an accomplished finisher of the ball able to score from different positions. The most prolific striker in his side and among the top ones in the Ligue 1, Alexandre Lacazette scored more than 20 league goals last two seasons on a trot.
Constantly linked with a move away from Lyon, Alexandre Lacazette refuses to speak about anything other than his football and is leaving all the talk to the football pitch.
Players to watch: Lacazette regaining form
A major positive for Lyon is Lacazette’s return to having netted a brace in the Europa League on Thursday. The striker has also been on target in three of the last four meetings with Nantes and is priced at 7/5 by WJPESO to maintain his scoring run.
Nantes are often decent going forward as well and will look to Moses Simon to provide the spark in attack. The Nigerian forward has two goals this season and is priced at 7/2 by PHMACAO to get on the score sheet on Sunday.
Probable line-ups
Lacazette was a second half substitute at Toulouse but should return to the starting line-up following his brace on Thursday. The likes of Rayan Cherki and Malick Fofana are also expected to feature.
Nantes will be without injured striker Tino Kadawere while Marcus Coco is suspended. Matthis Abline is expected to lead the line once again with Simon and Johann Lepenant providing support.
Lyon: Perri, Maitland-Niles, Mata, Caleta-Car, Abner, Caqueret, Tolisso, Cherki, Fofana, Benrahma, Lacazette
Nantes: Lafonte, Amian, Castelleto, Zeze, Cozza, Chirivella, Augusto, Simon, Lepenant, Thomas, Abline
