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Lorient vs Brest Prediction & Betting tips
Since the start of 2018, Lorient and Stade Brestois met five times and never once did Lorient win. Will this change on Sunday afternoon?
Lorient:
Halfway through the season, Lorient is in second place in the Ligue 2 with 39 points, just one point behind league-leader RC Lens, and therefore the team seems to be able to get involved again in the promotion fight this season. Last season, the team ended in a shared fifth place, and a spot on the play-offs for promotion missed out on a goal difference, but halfway through the competition the lead on the shared fifth place is already nine points. This is mainly due to Yoane Wissa, who made six hits in 36 games last season, but this season is still four times as effective with eleven hits in the first nineteen games of the season.
Prior to the winter break, Christophe Pélissier’s team showed that the form is doing well: no fewer than seven of the last eight games were won. Only the last game before the winter break, visiting Valenciennes, was lost 3-0, with which the Pélissier team had to exchange the first place for the second place. In view of the game played in the first half of the season, Lorient also seems to be able to play at the bottom of the Ligue 1, which means that the team also seems to have a good chance against Stade Brestois next Sunday.
Stade Brestois:
In the last games before the winter break, Stade Brestois left a mixed impression. Strasbourg won 5-0 in-house, but there was also a 1-0 defeat visiting Lille and even a 4-0 defeat against Montpellier. Despite the mixed results, the doctoral candidate has collected 22 points after nineteen matches, which means that the lead over the relegation zone is already five points. The backlog on the left-hand row is also five points, which means that this season the team seems to be able to focus on a spot high in the right-hand row and probably success in one of the two French cup tournaments.
There seems to be a world of difference this season between Stade Brestois in home and away games. For example, in ten league matches in the Stade Francis-Le Blé only Paris Saint-Germain was lost, while in nine away games Angers only won. In-house, the team of Olivier Dall’Oglio scores on average two and a half times more often than in away games, while in away games on average three times as many hits are collected as in home games.
Lorient vs Brest head to head matches
17.07.19 CF Brest Lorient 2 : 1
16.03.19 L2 Lorient Brest 1 : 1
20.10.18 L2 Brest Lorient 3 : 2
11.07.18 CF Lorient Brest 2 : 3
16.04.18 L2 Brest Lorient 3 : 0