Europa League betting and spectator preview: Olympique Lyonnais and Rangers meet at Parc Olympique Lyonnais to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
These are active days for the home side, as they had a game only four days ago in the Ligue 1. That game was an away game at Bordeaux, so at least Olympique are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Rangers, who are travelling more than 1500 kilometers to play this game.
Olympique Lyonnais form and stats
Last season their Champions League adventure ended in the semi-finals.The story so far in the Ligue 1 for Olympique Lyonnais at their home stadium (Parc Olympique Lyonnais) is 4 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat. This match is a Europa League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 5 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses in this competition.
The home team returns to Parc Olympique after being equal after 90 minutes with Bordeaux on their last time out; the Ligue 1 game ended 2-2. The talented striker Lucas Paquetá outshone all the other players in that fixture and received a match rating of 7.64 out of 10. Paquetá served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times and had 28 successful passes (of 32 total).
Preceding that match was the home Ligue 1 game against Reims that was lost 1-2.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Olympique Lyonnais have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found five games) they have won two times, drawn one and lost two.
Olympique are traveling soon after this match as the Ligue 1 match at Lille awaits in three days.
Goals decide football matches and Olympique are scoring many of them at home; 16 on target from 8 league matches. Olympique's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Rangers form and stats
Rangers was sent out of Europa League in the 8th finals last season, when Slavia Praha turned out to be too strong.Rangers's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Rangers collect 33 points from their 15 away matches in the Europa League. 10 victories and 3 draws have created these points (and only 2 defeats). When we have look at the Europa League statistics, we find 3W-2D-2L. This is both home and away. Things are running smoothly for Rangers who hasn't tasted defeat in their last 14 matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Dundee United.
The supporters enjoyed Rangers's previous game versus Dundee, a Premiership 3-0 win played at home. Attacker Alfredo Morelos got a player rating of 8.62 in the game. "Man of the match" Morelos scored one goal, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 38 successful passes (of 46 total).
Preceding that game was the away Premiership victory against Hibernian with the score of 1-0.We have checked recent matches where Rangers have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those one game were one victory, zero draws and zero defeats.
Rangers have another fixture away in just three nights, a Premiership fixture against Hearts. A gruelling fixture list for the guests!
The Rangers manager G. van Bronckhorst has got the team scoring on the road, with 31 away goals in 15 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (12 so far).
Head 2 Head
The latest H2H encounter ended Rangers - Olympique 0-2, earlier this season. Olympique-Rangers H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Olympique Lyonnais two wins, Rangers two wins, zero draws. two of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  L. Tolentino Coelho de Lima 6 goals |   K. Roofe 6 goals |  K. Toko Ekambi 5 goals |
Olympique Lyonnais missing players
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| Olympique Lyonnais | Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 16 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | ||
| 51 | 28 | Scored | S | 20 | 48 | ||
| 40 | 13 | Conceded | C | 8 | 22 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 90% | 96% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 60% | 76% | ||
| 72% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 48% | ||
| 48% | 42% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 30% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 16% | ||
| 72% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 30% | 40% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 12% | ||
| 4.5 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.8 | 8 | ||
| 4.6 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.7 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 13.3 | 15.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 17.6 | 18.4 | ||
| 5.1 | 5.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.1 | 6.2 | ||
| 40% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 31% | ||
| 13.6 | 12.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.1 | 5.4 | ||
| 5.3 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 2.1 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Olympique Lyonnais | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 15 |
| 2 | Rangers | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | Sparta Praha | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 4 |
| 4 | Brøndby | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -7 | 2 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | PSG | 17 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 36 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 20 | 42 |
| 2 | Rennes | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 32 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 18 | 31 |
| 3 | Olympique Marseille | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 29 |
| 4 | Nice | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 27 |
| 5 | Lens | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 30 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 27 |
| 6 | Strasbourg | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 34 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 26 |
| 7 | Monaco | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 26 |
| 8 | Angers SCO | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 25 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 25 |
| 9 | Montpellier | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 25 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 25 |
| 10 | Brest | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 24 |
| 11 | Lille | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 14 | -1 | 24 |
| 12 | Olympique Lyonnais | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 25 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 23 |
| 13 | Nantes | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 22 |
| 14 | Reims | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 11 | -2 | 19 |
| 15 | Troyes | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 16 | -9 | 16 |
| 16 | Lorient | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 18 | -13 | 15 |
| 17 | Bordeaux | 17 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 26 | 39 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 22 | -13 | 14 |
| 18 | Clermont | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 32 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -13 | 14 |
| 19 | Metz | 17 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 37 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 19 | -19 | 12 |
| 20 | Saint-Etienne | 17 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 37 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 17 | -20 | 12 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Celtic | 30 | 26 | 2 | 2 | 89 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 7 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 12 | 70 | 80 |
| 2 | Rangers | 29 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 64 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 12 | 45 | 67 |
| 3 | Motherwell | 30 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 41 | 38 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 23 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 46 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 30 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 40 | 36 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 4 | 45 |
| 5 | Livingston | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 41 | 39 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 31 | 2 | 39 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 42 | 49 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 26 | 22 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 27 | -7 | 37 |
| 7 | St. Johnstone | 29 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 28 | 46 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 26 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 20 | -18 | 36 |
| 8 | Kilmarnock | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 31 | 41 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 26 | -10 | 33 |
| 9 | St. Mirren | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 24 | 41 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 28 | -17 | 29 |
| 10 | Ross County | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 29 | 60 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 37 | -31 | 29 |
| 11 | Hamilton Academical | 30 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 30 | 50 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 26 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 24 | -20 | 27 |
| 12 | Hearts | 30 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 31 | 52 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 23 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 29 | -21 | 23 |