Our prediction for this Ligue 1 match:
Lyon
Match Time & Date:
17 May 2025
20:00
Prediction: 3-1
Angers
Following back-to-back losses to Lens and Monaco, Olympique Lyon will look to finish the season in style when they take on Angers on Saturday evening. Les Gones have slim chances of securing their spot in the Conference League, but the hope dies last. Therefore, we predict that Lyon will go all guns blazing at Angers. Both Orel Mangala and Ernest Nuamah are sidelined with injuries, while experienced midfielder Corentin Tolisso is a major doubt.
Les Scoistes, on the other hand, aim to build on back-to-back wins over Nantes and Strasbourg. Angers have been struggling on the road lately, losing three of their last four away games. With survival already secured, home win should be considered. Forward Farid El Melali is rated doubtful for the visiting team after limping off with injury in the last league match. Everything suggests that the Algerian will not be risked against les Gones.
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 (Angers):
French Football Federation was founded in 1919, with French football club Angers being founded the same year. Les Scoistes returned to the French top flight at the end of the 2014/2015 season and they finished the 2015/2016 Ligue 1 campaign in ninth place in the standings.
Angers were having their ups and downs in the 2016/2017 season and, as a result, they finished 12th. Les Scoistes are well known for their black jerseys with white stripes, whilst the color of their away kits is white. Stade Raymond Kopa is the team’s home ground and the capacity of the stadium is 17.835.
The venues was opened back in 1912 and the stadium’s record attendance is 22.989 (April 26, 1969 vs. Olympique Marseille). Speaking of the club’s most notable players, we have to mention Fahid Ben Khalfallah, Vladica Kovacevic, Claudiu Keseru, Paul Alo’o, Amar Rouai and Cedric Daury. It has to be noted that the 2017/2018 season will be their 24th in the French top flight.
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