Amiens hosts Lyon in round 5 of French Ligue 1. The match will be played on Friday, September 13th at Stade de la Licorne (Amiens)
Having lost the opening round of the championship to Nice away (it is 3rd in the standings now), Amiens beat the vice-champion Lille in the next round at home. However, everything clicked into place in the next 2 matches, and Amiens lost them to Nantes and Toulouse. It is difficult to classify Amiens even to the middle-class teams of the big leagues. It is degrading from championship to championship. The year before last, the team finished 14th and had a handicap of 7 points from the play-out matches. In the last season, it was only 4 points away from relegation matches. Now Amiens is located in the very 18th place that implies matches for survival.
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Lyon started so-so. After 5 rounds, the team has the whole set of possible results. A loss, a draw and 2 wins. But it did not cease to be one of the strongest clubs in France because of this. Lyon is stably fighting for medals. In the last 2 championships, it won bronze. Before that, it finished 4th. Earlier, Lyon had won silver medals for 2 consecutive seasons, and it will surely fight for the podium in the current championship. Its squad is rather qualified and expensive, and only PSG and maybe Marseille can boast of more. Lyon managed to keep Lopes, Depay, Cornet, Terrier, Traore, and Dubois. The coach of the Kids, Sylvinho, found the right words for all of them, and everyone remained in the team. Moreover, they enforced the defense with a defender of Lille, Mendes and brought Brazilian halfback Lucas from Santos. By the way, the 21-year-old guy has already scored his first goal against Bordeaux.
There is an abyss between teams in all respects. In terms of the squad, the length of the bench, finances, the manner of the game, and the tasks in the championship. One needs to save a place in the league, and the other wants to win this league. Finally, the statistics for Amiens are deadly. Opponents met 8 times, and Lyon won all 8 games. There is no reason to assume that the visitors will share at least 1 point in this meeting with Amiens.
Prediction for the match: Lyon to win
