LORIENT - LYON PREDICTIONS AND PREVIEW: BETTING STATS

Lorient is the good surprise of this beginning of season, the proof is their 4^th rank in the Ligue 1, instead of Lyon (3^rd) which need to be in the head of ranking each season.

The “Britons” never lost at home in 3 games and scored an average of 2 goals per game, but they only one game in the last five.

On the other side, Olympique Lyonnais was fully confident before last week and the defeat against Bordeaux, at home.

They were unbeaten this season and scored an average 2 goals per match.

LORIENT - LYON PREDICTIONS: TEAM NEWS AND RUN OF PLAY

The team managed by Christian Gourcuff (Lorient) practices an offensive and attractive game since August, particularly thanks to their last recruit Alain Traoré who scored some fantastic goals.

Unfortunately, the oranges lost their best defender Ecuelé-Manga for a long term injury so that’s good news for their opponents!

The “gones” (Lyon) played away on Thursday against Shmona, in Europa League, and they need confidence after the disillusion of last week. Also the departure of Hugo Lloris and the captain Cris in defence ask to Remi Garde to change a bit his strategy but for the moment Lisandro Lopez and the attack compensates defensive gaps.

On the synthetic field, the way of playing will be fast and we will see several goals for sure.

LORIENT - LYON PREDICTIONS: 1X2 BETS PREVIEW

The victory is hard to predict because both teams want to win to achieve their (different) targets, indeed Lorient got less pressure and play at home.

The draw is priced @ 3.20 with Ladbrokes and the victory of Lorient 2.89 with Pinnacle (Lyon's win @ 2.79 with the same bookmaker) so I think the draw is a good pick here.

LORIENT - LYON PREDICTIONS: ASIAN HANDICAP PREVIEW

A negative handicap is hard to plan so I think the safest is to bet on  Lyon +0.25 @ 1.61 with Pinnacle.  This match will be tight with two offensive ways of playing and two tacticians so everybody will be concentrated on the victory.

LORIENT - LYON PREDICTIONS: TOTAL GOALS PREVIEW

As explained above many goals could be scored  in this game, there are some injuries in defence for Lorient and Lyon’s goalkeeper need time to substitute the great Hugo Lloris. Also both teams have a good attacking side and showed some nice football since the beginning of the season.

So even if the market favors the under @ 1.74 with Pinnacle, i would take the risk to put some small stake on the over 2.5 goals priced @ 2.25 with William Hill.