Lyon takes on the visitors Saint-Etienne in the French Ligue 1 – Round 14. The game will be held on Friday, November 23rd at Parc Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon).
Lyon currently find themselves at the fourth line of the table. According to bookies, they are by all means the favorite of the coming match, as they play home. The team have a strong opponent though. We may agree that the hosts can possibly win, but we do not expect to witness many goals in the matchup. Lyon has a very tight schedule, as actually all European clubs competing now in the European Cups do. Yet four days after the game against Saint-Etienne, Lyon will have to fight one of the best teams in the Champions League, Manchester City. The Lyon players have decent chances to qualify for the play-off in the League, they managed to win the City even away; so the coach and the guys are already thinking about the coming match against Guardiola’s team. It won’t be a surprise if Lyon kind of sacrifice the Ligue 1 match and the coach gives some rest to star players. Even though we are used to see many goals in Lyon’s games, the bet of Under 2.5 goals for the matches of Bruno Genesio’s team paid off more often than not; there were less than three goals scored in 7 matches of 13.
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In the present campaign Saint-Etienne looks pretty good, currently they hold the second line in the standings. The team is only 1 point behind the Lyon, and they definitely don’t plan to go down without a fight even in the outing. No doubt that the coach will instruct Saint-Etienne to bar the counterattacks of the opponent and play safe in defense anywise. Though there will be no MU’s parking the bus, but the guests are unlikely to let the hosts score a lot. Also, there is very little chance that they will please the fans with abundance of goals.
Despite the fact that Saint-Etienne both scores and concedes over one goal on average in the Ligue 1, the statistics of the matches tends to prove our prediction. Same as Lyon, Saint-Etienne ended most of the Ligue 1 games with Under 2.5 goals, 7 vs 6. Contrary to expectations of most observers to see a goal-rich match, let us take a risk and bet on a very freaky Under 2.5 scored goals. Sure thing, it is usual that the Over odds often pays off in France, but football is all about unpredictability. We hope our reasoning above sounds pretty clear. Moreover, the latest head-to-head between these opponents, for example, just at Lyon’s stadium, finished with an Under draw of 1:1, and in five last matches, the teams played Over 2.5 scored goals only once.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 scored goals.
