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Reims vs Lyon Prediction & Betting tips
After the great victory at Olympique Nice in the opening game, Stade Reims is allowed to take it back against a heavyweight this week. Does the PhD student know how to surprise with six points from two matches?
Stade Reims:
Stade Reims played last weekend against a battered Olympique Nice and managed to win despite a mediocre game by a brilliant shot from Moussa Doumbia. The Malinese got out devastatingly from a meter or twenty and was able to surprise Yoan Cardinale in the short corner. A possibly even harder shot from the Malians was played by Cardinale after nearly thirty minutes of play, which meant that Doumbia could only crown his debut in France with one goal – admittedly the winning one. The rest of the game was mainly defending for the sixfold champion of France who had no thirty percent possession of the entire game.
Against an attacking powerless Nice, the team of David Guion left with only three shots on goal (against only one attempt by Nice), but against the opponent of Friday that will have to be different, especially given the attacking potential of Olympique Lyonnais. Guion will expect a lot more ball resistance on Friday from his players, especially given the fact that about three passes were given to Nice before the ball was returned.
Olympique Lyonnais:
As expected, Olympique Lyonnais won the first game of the season, but this went with more effort than expected. After a strong first half-hour in which ex-Ajax player Bertrand Traoré fired three times on goal and from one of these three goal attempts one ended up in the net, Bruno Génésio’s team gave up too much space in the midfield. Memphis Depay determined the final score with a great free kick with another fifteen minutes to play at 2-0, which made Les Gones the competition very deserving.
Captain Nabil Fekir, who won the world championship with France this summer, was the big absentee in the selection of Olympique Lyonnais. After the successful World Cup, the Frenchman still enjoyed his holiday and his substitutes did more than well. Both Depay and Traoré came to score and Mariano Diaz also received the necessary threat. Should Fekir return to St Basis Reims again, this is presumably in the place of Mariano Diaz, but this is pure speculation.
Reims vs Lyon head to head matches
14.05.16 L1 Reims Lyon 4 : 1
03.10.15 L1 Lyon Reims 1 : 0
26.04.15 L1 Reims Lyon 2 : 4
04.12.14 L1 Lyon Reims 2 : 1
19.01.14 L1 Reims Lyon 0 : 2