National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Olympique Lyonnais or Lille that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Olympique Lyonnais form and stats
Last season, Olympique Lyonnais's Coupe de la Ligue journey ended in the quarter-finals.Overall Ligue 1 stats at home this season for Olympique Lyonnais are 3-2-4 (wins-draw-losses). The Olympique Lyonnais manager R. Garcia might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
Happy days for Olympique Lyonnais in their previous game, a Coupe de France match away at Nantes that ended with a 4-3 victory. Before that match, a Ligue 1 win away at Bordeaux.
A goal frenzy last time out for Olympique Lyonnais, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Nantes. Fun stuff to watch!
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 three games) they have won 2 times, drawn 0 and lost 1.
The Olympique Lyonnais fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 11 in 9 matches. Olympique Lyonnais have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Lille form and stats
They also participated in Coupe de la Ligue last season. This ended in the 16th finals.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Lille so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-7 (win-draw-lose). With two straight losses from their last two away games, Lille are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.
Lille have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Leonardo Cesar Jardim. It's been 189 minutes since they last conceded in Ligue 1.
Lille play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Gonfreville. Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Dijon's place.
Lille are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. From a total of six matches.
The visitors have scored 6 goals from 10 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. In the opposite end, Lille have conceded 17 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 1 Olympique Lyonnais victory, 4 draws and 5 Lille wins. 6 of these games ended with three goals or more, 4 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
 
M. Dembélé
11 goals
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V. Osimhen
10 goals
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M. Depay
9 goals
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Olympique Lyonnais missing players
Lille missing players
| Olympique Lyonnais | Lille | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 8 | 10 | ||
| 46 | 17 | Scored | S | 16 | 31 | ||
| 28 | 11 | Conceded | C | 25 | 33 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 58% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 80% | ||
| 56% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 48% | ||
| 36% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 16% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 42% | Failed to Score | F T | 21% | 20% | ||
| 5 | 5.8 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.8 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.9 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.9 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 353 | 183 | Total Shots | T S | 173 | 330 | ||
| 142 | 74 | Shots on Target | S O | 72 | 129 | ||
| 32% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 24% | ||
| 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 | 20 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 50 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 8 | 36 | 49 |
| 2 | Olympique Marseille | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 41 |
| 3 | Rennes | 20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 36 |
| 4 | Nantes | 20 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 32 |
| 5 | Lille | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 31 |
| 6 | Montpellier | 20 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 28 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 30 |
| 7 | Olympique Lyonnais | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 29 |
| 8 | Reims | 20 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 29 |
| 9 | Monaco | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 35 | 33 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 29 |
| 10 | Angers SCO | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 18 | -2 | 29 |
| 11 | Nice | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 29 | 28 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 28 |
| 12 | Strasbourg | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 25 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 13 | -2 | 27 |
| 13 | Bordeaux | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 29 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 26 |
| 14 | Brest | 20 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 26 | 26 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 0 | 25 |
| 15 | Saint-Etienne | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 18 | -9 | 25 |
| 16 | Dijon | 20 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 12 | -7 | 21 |
| 17 | Metz | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -10 | 20 |
| 18 | Amiens SC | 20 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 39 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 23 | -16 | 18 |
| 19 | Nimes | 20 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 33 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 22 | -18 | 15 |
| 20 | Toulouse | 20 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 21 | 44 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 25 | -23 | 12 |