Delightful dogfight as daring Angers SCO duels with determined Lorient

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Competition: France Ligue 1
Competition: Sun 06.December
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Raymond Kopa (17835 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Angers SCO are in the 8th position while the guesting Lorient worry at 18th.

Insights:
  • Angers SCO has the most conceded goals in the first half (13) in Ligue 1
  • Lorient have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

19-7-14 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Lorient when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 40 matches are 52-44 (scored/conceded).

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Angers SCO form and stats

Angers SCO have collected 7 points from their Ligue 1 home games so far after 2-1-3. Angers are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Stade Raymond Kopa, having lost their two previous games here.

A strong away win for Angers against Lens the last match, as Stéphane Bahoken, Mathias Pereira Lage and Pierrick Capelle were on target. Preceding that match was a defeat to Olympique Lyonnais (0-1).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Angers handle that role? We have found eleven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are six wins, five draws and zero defeats.

Angers SCO have scored 5 league goals here from 6 matches, not a lot. Angers have conceded 9 from these games.

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Lorient form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Lorient so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-4 (win-draw-lose). It's a growing despair in Lorient as they have recorded three consecutive losses.

Lorient aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 460 league minutes without a goal. T. Moffi was the last player to find the net.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Ligue 1 home defeat versus Montpellier with 0-1 on the scoreboard. Preceding that game, the 0-4 loss visiting Lille's place.

We have checked recent matches where Lorient have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those six games were four victories, zero draws and two defeats.

Lorient are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 6 away goals from 6 games (in the league). Lorient have conceded 13 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's one Angers victory, four draws and three Lorient wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AngersS. Bahoken
S. Bahoken
5 goals
LorientY. Wissa
Y. Wissa
4 goals
Angers SCOI. Traoré
I. Traoré
3 goals

Angers SCO missing players

Lorient missing players

Angers SCO Lorient
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
12 6 1 Played P 2 6 12
6 2 1 Won W 0 1 2
1 1 0 Drew D 0 1 2
5 3 0 Lost L 2 4 8
18 5 1 Scored S 3 6 12
22 9 0 Conceded C 6 13 22
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 92%
75% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 75%
58% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 50%
42% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 67% 50%
33% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 17% 17%
58% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 50%
17% 17% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 8%
25% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 50%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.6 3.2 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.5 2.2
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.3 14.7 20 Shots (avg) S ( 9 9.3 9.1
4.5 4.7 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 2.3 2.9
33% 18% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 43% 34%
Key stats in Ligue 1 this season:
  • Angers SCO has the most conceded goals in the first half (13) in Ligue 1
  • Angers SCO haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Lorient have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Lorient have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  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 12 8 1 3 30 8 6 4 1 1 16 4 6 4 0 2 14 4 22 25
2 Lille 12 6 5 1 22 8 6 4 2 0 13 2 6 2 3 1 9 6 14 23
3 Olympique Lyonnais 12 6 5 1 21 10 6 4 2 0 14 4 6 2 3 1 7 6 11 23
4 Monaco 12 7 2 3 23 16 7 5 2 0 18 8 5 2 0 3 5 8 7 23
5 Montpellier 12 7 2 3 21 16 6 4 0 2 13 11 6 3 2 1 8 5 5 23
6 Olympique Marseille 10 6 3 1 15 9 5 2 2 1 8 6 5 4 1 0 7 3 6 21
7 Rennes 12 5 4 3 19 16 6 3 1 2 9 8 6 2 3 1 10 8 3 19
8 Angers SCO 12 6 1 5 18 22 6 2 1 3 5 9 6 4 0 2 13 13 -4 19
9 Lens 11 5 3 3 17 18 6 3 2 1 11 9 5 2 1 2 6 9 -1 18
10 Brest 12 6 0 6 21 23 6 4 0 2 13 11 6 2 0 4 8 12 -2 18
11 Nice 11 5 2 4 16 15 6 2 1 3 7 11 5 3 1 1 9 4 1 17
12 Metz 12 4 4 4 12 11 6 3 1 2 8 6 6 1 3 2 4 5 1 16
13 Bordeaux 12 4 4 4 12 13 6 2 3 1 5 2 6 2 1 3 7 11 -1 16
14 Nantes 12 3 4 5 14 18 5 2 2 1 8 8 7 1 2 4 6 10 -4 13
15 Saint-Étienne 12 3 2 7 12 20 6 2 1 3 6 8 6 1 1 4 6 12 -8 11
16 Nimes 12 3 2 7 11 22 6 1 1 4 8 15 6 2 1 3 3 7 -11 11
17 Reims 12 2 3 7 16 22 5 1 0 4 3 8 7 1 3 3 13 14 -6 9
18 Lorient 12 2 2 8 12 22 6 1 1 4 6 9 6 1 1 4 6 13 -10 8
19 Strasbourg 12 2 1 9 14 24 6 1 1 4 4 10 6 1 0 5 10 14 -10 7
20 Dijon 12 1 4 7 8 21 6 0 3 3 3 7 6 1 1 4 5 14 -13 7

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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.