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Caen vs Lille Prediction & Betting tips
The twentieth round of Ligue 1 is kicked off by Caen and Lille. Both teams did not impress in the 1 / 32th-finals of the Coupe de France with a meager 1-0 win and get a new chance to prove themselves on Friday-evening.
Caen:
Stade Malherbe Caen closed the calendar year 2018 with no less than five points from the last three league matches and the new year 2019 also started well with a victory in the 1 / 32th-finals of the Coupe de France on second division Red Star. Fabien Mercadal said after the game that he was especially pleased with the fact that for the first time in seven games a clean sheet was achieved.
With 25 opponents in nineteen matches this season, the defense this season is a big problem for the team of Mercadal and the more remarkable is that last week in the person of Aly Ndom a midfielder was attracted and not a defender. Ndom, who this season at Stade Reims to eight incursions and three basic places in the Ligue 1 came and did not score, is mainly intended as an extra lock on the door with the team from the port. On average Caen catches two yellow cards per game this season and one red card per six games, which means that the team has taken most of the cards from all the Ligue 1 teams this season. Greetings Ndom is all but a card packer with only one yellow card season.
Lille:
In the biggest cup tournament of France in the 1 / 32nd-finals much was expected of the number two of the Ligue 1, but against second division Sochaux the team of Christophe Galtier came to a meager 1-0 win. Luiz Araújo, this season unlike last season no base player at Lille, rated a beautiful cross by Nicolas Pépé on value and knew with his first goal of the season to decide the game. In the second chance, Lille still has a few big chances, but due to the good work of Mike Maignan, who got a clean sheet for the first time in four games, Lille did not have to worry for a single moment.
Not for the first time this season, Nicolas Pépé was involved in the goal of his team, but the Ivorian super talent that this transfer period would be the target of several top teams, is now also two games in a row dry. The Ivoriaan was directly involved in no less than sixty percent of all goals of his team in all competitions this season and seems to be working on his last season in Northern France. At the beginning of this season, the transfer value of the 23-year-old Pépé was estimated at around thirty million, but according to the most recent estimates, that amount would already have doubled.
Caen vs Lille head to head matches
27.10.18 L1 Lille Caen 1 : 0
13.01.18 L1 Caen Lille 0 : 1
20.08.17 L1 Lille Caen 0 : 2
18.02.17 L1 Caen Lille 0 : 1
29.11.16 L1 Lille Caen 4 : 2