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Lyon vs Strasbourg Prediction & Betting tips
The Parc Olympique Lyonnais is full Friday night for Olympique Lyonnais’ second home game this season. Against Amiens, Olympique Lyonnais won 2-0, can they repeat that trick against RC Strasbourg?
Olympique Lyonnais:
The opening game of this season won Olympique Lyonnais convincingly 2-0 against Amiens, but last week it went wrong against Stade Reims. On visiting Reims, Bruno Génésio’s team was the better team, but all five shots on goal did not end up against the ropes. A defensive error by Bertrand Traoré led to a goal by Reims in the first half, which means that the men of Génésio have only three points after two games. Fortunately for fans of the Lyon club, Olympique Marseille and AS Monaco also lost points.
Striking statistics from Olympique Lyonnais is the high number of goal attempts in the last two matches against the goals, 34 to two more precisely, or a conversion rate of less than 6%. Last season OL’s conversion rate was almost 20%, or more than three times higher. If we do not score goals, we should have a solid defense, Génésio will have thought when the decision was made to take over Jason Denayer, a Belgian defender, from Manchester City. Denayer will probably not be playing along with RC Strasbourg, so Memphis Depay will be keen to continue his series of eleven goals in the last eleven matches.
RC Strasbourg:
Both in the won opening game against Girondins de Bordeaux and last week against AS Saint-Étienne, RC Strasbourg was within twenty minutes with a man more on the field. Joao da Costa was the first base in this season to get a red card from Neven Subotic and in the second half he could see how Anthony Goncalves made his first goal in 58 matches for RC Strasbourg in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. Le Racing came however, not to score more often, so that a goal of AS Saint-Étienne just before separating the market eventually led to the fact that two points were lost.
Striking was the difference in Le Racing play in the two league games of this season so far. In-house against Girondins de Bordeaux, Jean-Louis Gasset’s team dominated, but last week Gasset’s team was much less convincing. In the first half, Adrien Thomasson did not make an impression on the left, but his replacement in the second half, Lucien Zohi, was also unable to be decisive. Those who could make an impression on the left were Adrien Caci, the 21-year-old left back who gave the assist on Da Costa’s 1-0 and saw more than eighty percent of his passes coming from a teammate.
Lyon vs Strasbourg head to head matches
12.05.18 L1 Strasbourg Lyon 3 : 2
05.08.17 L1 Lyon Strasbourg 4 : 0
09.01.10 COU Strasbourg Lyon 1 : 3
19.04.08 L1 Strasbourg Lyon 1 : 2
02.12.07 L1 Lyon Strasbourg 5 : 0