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Lyon vs Shakhtar Donetsk Prediction & Betting tips
With the aim of securing a victory that will allow him to gain a foothold in the UEFA Champions League Group F, on Tuesday the French team of Olympique Lyon is waiting for the visit of the Ukrainian team Shakhtar Donetsk, to be played at Parc Olympique Lyonnais
Olympique Lyon:
Those led by Bruno Génésio began their participation in the UEFA Champions League with an excellent win as was the 1-2 in his visit to Manchester City, and with the two-goal tie between Hoffenheim and Shakhtar, the French cast is alone in The first place, so the hope of qualifying to the next stage will now depend on their home games.
Olympique Lyon arrives very motivated to this commitment, it is true that they come to draw at home to a goal against Nantes and thus have fallen to fifth place in Ligue 1 of France, but it must be mentioned that with that draw they added a streak of five games without losing where three finished in victories, and what is better is that the offensive block is very fine every time they were present with goal in each of those five games, so this Tuesday with the support of Nabil Fekir, Moussa Dembele and Bertrand Traore hope to add a new victory in the European Champions League.
Shakhtar Donetsk:
On the other hand, the ones led by Paulo Fonseca come from scoring 1-6 in their visit to Karpaty and with it Shakhtar Donetsk took hold at the top of the Premier League of Ukraine taking a four point advantage over Dynamo Kiev, so all It aims that the current champions will keep their crown.
But despite this, his fans are waiting for his team to equal or improve what was done last season in the European Champions League, where they reached the last 16 by being eliminated by Roma from Italy with the theme of value added to the visitor’s goal.
Recall that in the previous edition of Shakhtar he had a difficult group with Napoli and Manchester City, but the fact of becoming strong at home winning all four games was vital to be one of the protagonists of that UEFA Champions League and unfortunately in his debut against Hoffenheim could not maintain that level and had to settle for a draw with two goals.
Thus, while their numbers at home are nice, everything is different for the Ukrainian team when they play away from home in the Champions League, since they have lost in seven of their last eight away games and in those seven defeats they could not even make a goal, so they hope to be able to change that poor story on Tuesday in France.
As for direct confrontations, these teams have only faced each other once and it was in a friendly match in July 2014 with Olympique Lyon triumphing 4-1.
The game against Shakhtar Donetsk will be the third different Ukrainian team that will face Olympique Lyon on the European stage, before it was against Dynamo Kyiv and Chornomorets Odesa, and the French are undefeated with 3 wins and one draw.
For their part, the Ukrainian cast have only won one of 10 matches against a French team in the Champions League since 1992/93, from there eight more ended in defeats and six of them have come in a row since Dynamo Kyiv won. to Lens for 3-1 in December 1998.
Possible alignments:
Olympique Lyon: Lopes; Léo Dubois, Marcelo, Marçal, Morel; Aouar, Cheikh, Fekir; Dembélé, Depay, Traoré.
Shakhtar Donetsk: Pyatov; Ismaily, Rakytskyi, Khocholava, Matvienko; Stepanenko, Maycon, Fernando, Taison, Marlos; Junior Moraes.
Lyon vs Shakhtar Donetsk head to head matches
19.07.14 CF Lyon Shakhtar Donetsk 4 : 1
27.07.11 CF Shakhtar Donetsk Lyon 1 : 1