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The visiting Monaco played their last game only three days ago, a Champions League match.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Monaco have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 1-0-0 (win-draw-loss) from one match.

Monaco have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1300 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

Lorient form and stats

Last season, Lorient's league statistics were 11 wins, 9 draws and 18 losses, resulting in a 16th position in the Ligue 1. Over these 38 matches they scored 50 goals and conceded 68. Playing at home last season Lorient managed 10-2-7 (win-draw-lost) with 31 goals and 29 conceded.

Lorient travelled for their previous game, a trip to Saint-Etienne that ended 1-1. Vincent Le Goff was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.45 out of 10. The defender Goff scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 2 of 5 duels.

Before that, Lorient played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Strasbourg.

Monaco form and stats

Let's have a look at how Monaco performed last season in the Ligue 1: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 24 victories, 6 draws and 8 defeats. In total they scored 76 and conceded 42 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 12 - drew 1 and lost 6 with 33/21 goals scored/conceded.

Impressive finishing from Gelson Martins, Sofiane Diop and Aleksandr Golovin secured the home win 3-1 against Sparta Praha in their previous game. Midfield player Aleksandr Golovin was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.34/10. Golovin scored one goal, hit three key passes and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times.

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Nantes in the Ligue 1.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head numbers|totals|statistics|data (for the previous|last|preceeding|prior|former ten meetings): Lorient won two games, two matches ended in a draw|ended with a tie|ended with a draw and Monaco managed|have|got six wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three

Top Goalscorers

V. Le Goff 1 goals

G. Batalha Martins 1 goals

Lorient missing players

Monaco missing players

		Total						Home						Away
#	Team	MP	W	D	L	F	A	MP	W	D	L	F	A	MP	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	P
1	Angers SCO	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	2	3
2	Clermont	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	2	3
3	Olympique Marseille	1	1	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	2	1	3
4	PSG	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	1	3
5	Lille	1	0	1	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	3	0	1
6	Metz	1	0	1	0	3	3	1	0	1	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
7	Brest	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1
8	Lens	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1
9	Lorient	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1
10	Monaco	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
11	Nantes	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1
12	Olympique Lyonnais	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
13	Rennes	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
14	Saint-Etienne	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
15	Nice	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
16	Reims	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
17	Montpellier	1	0	0	1	2	3	1	0	0	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	0
18	Troyes	1	0	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	0
19	Bordeaux	1	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2	0
20	Strasbourg	1	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2	0