Our prediction for this Ligue 1 match:
Olympique Lyon will be looking to stay in the race for the Ligue 1 title when they take on Brest at Stade Francis-Le Ble on Friday evening. Les Gones aim to make amends for a shocking 2-1 loss to Montpellier, and bookies see them as hot favourites to win the match. Olympique Lyon are three points behind league leaders Lille in the Ligue 1 table, and we are positive that they will go all guns blazing at Brest.
Defender Marcelo, who suffered an injury in the 2-1 loss to Montpellier, is unlikely to feature in Friday’s clash. Les Pirates, on the other hand, are stuck in the middle of the table, meaning that they have little to play for in the remainder of the season. Lyon want this win more than Brest, and we predict that Memphis Depay and Co. are going to pick up all three points from the match.
Highlighted Player (Paul Lasne):
Paul Lasne is a product of Bordeaux football academy, but he did not play for les Girondins at senior level. After ending his loan spell with Chateauroux Lasne signed a loan deal with Ajaccio in 2010 and he proved his worth in the 2010/2011 Ligue 2 campaign.
As a result, he was offered a permanent deal by the club chiefs and it has to be noted that he played for Corsican side from 2011 to 2014. After scoring four goals in 89 appearances in the league for Ajaccio, the 186-cm-tall midfielder joined Montpellier in the summer of 2014, signing a four-year contract with La Paillade.
Paul Lasne scored three goals for Montpellier, while providing two assists for his teammates in the 2016/2017 Ligue 1 campaign. Despite being left-footed, his main position is right midfield, but he is used as both central and defensive midfielder as well. The Montpellier footballer was born in Saint-Cloud, France on January 16, 1989 and his agent is Henri Zambelli.
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.