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Hoffenheim vs Lyon Prediction & Betting tips
During the week, the third match day of the group stage will take place in the Champions League. In the Wirsol Rhein-Neckar-Arena TSG Hoffenheim will welcome the French first division club Olympique Lyon on Tuesday evening. In Group F, Lyon are in first place after two games with four points. The TSG is, however, with only one point in fourth place. With the 3-1 victory in Nuremberg on Saturday, the Kraichgauer ended a series of three competitive defeats in a row. With the success on the eighth day of the Bundesliga Hoffenheim climbed to eighth place in the table. Now the team of coach Julian Nagelsmann wants to create a threesome in the premier class. Olympique Lyon is “only” in fifth place after ten games in Ligue 1. Also OL ended a series of three games without a win at the weekend with 2-0 at home to newly promoted Nimes.
Both teams meet for the first time on Tuesday. Lyon have played 25 times against German teams. With eleven wins, three draws and eleven defeats the balance is completely balanced. In 13 away games against teams from the Bundesliga, there were four wins and seven defeats for the French. The last two games at German teams, on Schalke and Bayern, Lyon lost. This Olympique has lost four of their last six games against Bundesliga teams. The betting base presents an analysis of the Champions League match Hoffenheim vs. Hoffenheim. Lyon and the tip “victory Hoffenheim” to great odds.
Hoffenheim:
After three 1: 2 competitive defeats in a row Julian Nagelsmann his team on Saturday in Nuremberg in 3-4-3 accumulate. The TSG took a good 20 minutes to get into the game. The club took the lead in the 18th minute. Only then did the team of coach Nagelsmann become more robust and let the ball circulate faster. After the break, the coach with an additional striker in a 3-1-4-2 system. Thus, the guests generated a permanent majority on both wings, were extremely dominant and could turn the game with a 3-1 victory at the end clearly and earned. The Englishman Reiss Nelson, who was loaned by Arsenal, was the match winner for the Kraichgauer with two goals.
TSG started the Champions League 2-1 away at Schachtjor Donetsk. At home there was then a narrow 1: 2 defeat against English champions Manchester City on Matchday 2. The European Cup balance of the Kraichgauer is still strong developable. So far, the nail men could only win one of their ten international games: in the Europa League at home 3-1 against Istanbul Basaksehir. The hospital of Hoffenheim relaxes more and more: coach Nagelsmann against Lyon can in all likelihood return to players such as Leonardo Bittencourt, Steven Zuber and Havardt Nordtveit fall back. Even Ishak Belfodil, who failed against Nuremberg because of gastrointestinal complaints, should be back in the squad. Belfodil made as a 16 -year-old at Olympique his first steps in the professional field and made his debut in 2009 for Lyon in the first league.
Lyon:
In the French league Lyon is currently with five wins, two draws and three defeats after ten matchdays in fifth place in the table. The gap to leaders Paris is 13 points. On the ninth day ended for OL with the 0-5 defeat at PSG a series of six competitive games without defeat. The game at champions Paris meant the biggest defeat for Olympique since February 2000. At that time Lyon had lost 1-6 at Nantes. In the away table of the Ligue 1, Lyon is currently only in 16th place with four points from four games. Only SC Amiens has scored fewer away from OL in the highest French league this season. This season, Olympique Lyon will take part in the group stage of the Champions League for the 15th time. The French have made three group stage appearances over the past four seasons. OL could not reach the round of 16 in 2015/16 and 2016/17. In the 2017/18 season, Lyon entered the Europa League and reached the last sixteen. There, the team of Bruno Genesio failed to CSKA Moscow.
Lyon started in the group stage of the premier class with a surprising 2-1 victory at the Citizens. At home against Shakhtar Donetsk it was enough on the second match day then only to a 2: 2. However, OL had lagged behind in the game after 55 minutes with 0: 2. The last six international matches saw four wins and one defeat for Les Gones. The coach will probably have to pass on captain and world champion Nabil Fekir in injury Kraichgau. The stakes of Rafael da Silva and Leo Dubois are still questionable. Dutchman Kenny Tete returns to the squad. Moussa Dembélé, who scored four goals in his last four games for OL, is in good form.