Home advantage could prove decisive in Olympique Lyonnais - Clermont battle

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Competition: France Ligue 1
Competition: Sun 22.Oct
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Parc Olympique Lyonnais (59186 seats)

This fixture stars two squads residing in the lower parts of the Ligue 1, Olympique Lyonnais holding 17th place and Clermont lying 18th. A nice chance for one of the teams to improve their position.

Insights:
  • Olympique Lyonnais have the the worst goal difference (-10) in Ligue 1
  • Clermont have the fewest scored goals (5) in Ligue 1

This promises to be an engaging fixture with lots of fun and energy as both participants are well refreshed since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's go!

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Olympique Lyonnais form and stats

The overall Ligue 1 stats at home this season for Olympique Lyonnais, who have the the worst goal difference (-10) in Ligue 1, are 0-2-2 (wins-draws-losses).

The home fans saw a 3-3 draw versus Lorient last time out and are looking for a win here. A disappointing finish for Olympique Lyonnais in their match versus Lorient as their 3-1 lead was destroyed and replaced with a 3-3 full time score. Attacking player Lacazette bested all teammates in that fixture and was awarded a match rating of 8.62 out of 10. Lacazette scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

A defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Reims.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Lyon matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat (from 6 games).

Olympique Lyonnais are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 5 goals in 4 games. As for conceded goals, Olympique Lyonnais's unpleasant statistic is 11 goals surrendered.

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Clermont form and stats

The Ligue 1 season is young and Clermont have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far.

Clermont play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 2-4 to Montpellier (placed 12th). As you can tell from the result, the match against Montpellier was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Nicholson, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.81. Nicholson signed up for two assists, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against PSG.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Clermont when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 6 matches with the visitors losing 2 times, drawing 1 and winning 3 games.

{3 goals} so far away for Clermont, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 6. All from 3 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Olympique Lyonnais-Clermont H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Olympique Lyonnais one win, Clermont two wins, one draw. three of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

LyonA. Lacazette
A. Lacazette
3 goals
Olympique LyonnaisN. Alejandro Tagliafico
N. Alejandro Tagliafico
1 goals
Olympique LyonnaisC. Tolisso
C. Tolisso
1 goals

Olympique Lyonnais missing players

Clermont missing players

Olympique Lyonnais Clermont
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
8 4 2 Played P 1 4 8
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
3 2 2 Drew D 0 1 2
5 2 0 Lost L 1 3 6
6 5 3 Scored S 1 5 7
16 11 3 Conceded C 2 10 16
75% 75% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 88%
62% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 62%
50% 75% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 75% 50%
38% 75% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 38%
38% 75% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 25%
50% 75% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 50%
25% 25% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 12%
50% 25% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 50%
 
4.5 5.5 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3 7 7
3.2 1.8 1.5 Corners against (avg) C A 1 1.8 2.9
2.1 2.2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2 1.6
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
13 14.5 16 Shots (avg) S ( 11 12 13.4
5.1 6 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.2 4.2
15% 21% 23% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 29% 21%
 
14.1 12.2 6.5 Shots against (avg) S A 9 8.8 11
5.2 5.5 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 4.2 5.6
Key stats in Ligue 1 this season:
  • All of Clermont's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Clermont have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Clermont have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Clermont have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Clermont have the fewest scored goals (5) in Ligue 1
  • Clermont have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Ligue 1
  • Clermont have the most conceded goals in the first half (9) in Ligue 1
  • Clermont have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Clermont have yet to win a game.
  • Clermont haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Clermont is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Olympique Lyonnais have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Olympique Lyonnais have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Olympique Lyonnais have the most conceded goals (11) at home in Ligue 1
  • Olympique Lyonnais have the the worst goal difference (-10) in Ligue 1
  • Olympique Lyonnais have the the worst goal difference (-6) at home in Ligue 1
  • Olympique Lyonnais have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Olympique Lyonnais have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Olympique Lyonnais have yet to win a game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Monaco 8 5 2 1 21 11 4 3 0 1 9 3 4 2 2 0 12 8 10 17
2 Nice 8 4 4 0 9 4 4 1 3 0 3 1 4 3 1 0 6 3 5 16
3 PSG 8 4 3 1 17 7 4 2 1 1 9 4 4 2 2 0 8 3 10 15
4 Brest 8 4 3 1 9 7 4 2 2 0 5 3 4 2 1 1 4 4 2 15
5 Reims 8 4 1 3 14 11 4 2 0 2 6 5 4 2 1 1 8 6 3 13
6 Olympique Marseille 8 3 3 2 12 11 4 3 1 0 7 1 4 0 2 2 5 10 1 12
7 LOSC Lille 8 3 3 2 11 10 3 2 0 1 4 2 5 1 3 1 7 8 1 12
8 Rennes 8 2 5 1 14 10 5 2 2 1 13 9 3 0 3 0 1 1 4 11
9 Nantes 8 3 2 3 14 15 4 1 2 1 10 9 4 2 0 2 4 6 -1 11
10 Strasbourg 8 3 1 4 8 11 5 2 1 2 7 6 3 1 0 2 1 5 -3 10
11 Toulouse 8 2 4 2 10 9 3 1 2 0 6 3 5 1 2 2 4 6 1 10
12 Montpellier 7 2 3 2 12 9 3 0 2 1 3 5 4 2 1 1 9 4 3 9
13 Le Havre 8 2 3 3 10 12 4 2 0 2 6 5 4 0 3 1 4 7 -2 9
14 Metz 8 2 2 4 7 14 4 0 2 2 4 6 4 2 0 2 3 8 -7 8
15 Lens 8 2 2 4 8 13 4 1 2 1 4 4 4 1 0 3 4 9 -5 8
16 Lorient 8 1 4 3 13 18 4 1 2 1 7 7 4 0 2 2 6 11 -5 7
17 Olympique Lyonnais 8 0 3 5 6 16 4 0 2 2 5 11 4 0 1 3 1 5 -10 3
18 Clermont 7 0 2 5 5 12 4 0 1 3 2 6 3 0 1 2 3 6 -7 2

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Ligue 1 is the top league in the French football league system. Seasons run from August to May with 20 teams playing a total of 380 fixtures. The team topping the league table after the final game is the champion of France, receiving the trophy L’Hexagoal. Ligue 1 is one of the top five European leagues.