Our prediction for this Ligue 1 match:
Lyon
Match Time & Date:
27/10/2024
07:00 AM
Prediction: 3-1
Auxerre
After rolling over Le Havre 4-0 on the road, Olympique Lyon will be aiming to climb to the Champions League berth when they face Auxerre at their Parc Olympique Lyonnais. Les Gones look unstoppable at the moment, winning each of their last three league matches and they are likely to stick to their attacking style of play. Experienced attacker Alexandre Lacazette, who opened his goal-scoring account at the weekend, should keep his place up front, while Serbia midfielder Nemanja Matic should recover in time to face the newcomers.
Auxerre, on the other hand, quickly bounced back from a 3-1 loss to St Etienne, with the team beating Reims 2-1 in front of home fans. Christophe Pelissier’s troops, though, have been struggling on the road this term, which is yet another reason why we are going to bet on the in-form hosts. All Paul Joly, Lasso Coulibaly, and Ousoumane Camara are injured for the visiting team.
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.
Highlighted Team (Lyon):
Commonly referred to as Lyon, Olympique Lyonnais is the French club which play their games at the Parc Olimpique Lyonnais with a capacity just a pinch short of 60,000. Lyon is one of the most popular clubs in France with a vast fan base on par with Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille.
The club achieved moderate success during the 1960s and 1970s led by the likes of Bernard Lacombe and Jean Djorkaeff, while the golden era of the French side came at the start of the new millennium when Lyon began to achieve greater success both in France and on the international level.
It was not until 2002 that Lyon won their first ever Ligue 1 title which sparked an ongoing national record-breaking streak of seven successive titles. During that time Lyon were regular participants of the UEFA Champions League. The French club reached quarter-finals on two occasions, while they even played in the semi-finals in the 2009-10 season.
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