Lille hosts Angers in round 5 of French Ligue 1. The match will be played on Friday, September 13th at Stade Pierre-Mauroy (Villeneuve d'Ascq)
Having won silver medals in the last championship, Lille still did not roll into the current season properly. After 4 rounds, the team has 2 wins and 2 losses. The start of last season was about the same (2 wins, a loss and a draw), so the Great Danes go almost according to last year’s schedule. And Lille continues to confirm its status of one of the championship’s home teams. It lost on the road but won both home matches. Lille managed to retain almost the entire last year’s squad. Only Pepe went to Arsenal, and Kone moved to Lyon. In their place, coach Galtier wished to see the player of the Turkish national team, Yazici. By the way, he scored the Moldavians in the last match of Euro qualification. Portuguese Djalo and the Croatian left back Bradaric also came to the team. Everyone started playing in the first eleven.
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Angers started more confidently than the upcoming opponent did. 3 wins and a loss in Lyon. But like Lille, the team gained all the victories at home. And the rivals in the last 2 matches were so-so - 15th Metz and Dijon, which is last in the standings. So, it’s too early for Angers fans to be happy. The match against Lyon showed that games with teams that are more decent than Dijon (especially away ones) won’t bring anything good to the team. A bronze medalist of the previous championship scored Angers 6 goals. The silver medalist will surely not score 6, but it is likely to take 3 points.
Lille, as I noted above, practically retained its entire squad, and this squad continues to please its fans with victories in the home field. Yes, Angers was not a very pleasant rival for Lille in the last season, and the Danes lost half of the last 8 head-to-head matches. But in the last game, they put an end to this unpleasant streak. And Lille not just beat Angers but hammered it with a 5-0 score. As for the upcoming match, there is every reason to believe that Lille will win again. The squad is coordinated, and the home field is not an empty phrase for the Danes. In the last championship, for example, they gained 13 victories in 19 home games and lost only 2 times. They matched a key to the goal of Angers in the last game and probably didn’t throw it away, but hid it just for the upcoming meeting. Lille’s squad is not only more organized but more powerful in terms of qualification and price, which is also an unimportant factor in modern football. And all this will most likely result in the next home victory of the vice-champion over the middle-class team …
Prediction for the match: Lille to win
