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Competition: France Ligue 1
Competition: Mon 02.January
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Pierre-Mauroy (50186 seats)

Lille have performed good football this season, proven by 6th spot in the table. Reims can look both ways from their 10th place.

Insights:
  • Lille have scored in all their home matches so far.

Reims could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Ligue 1 game only four sleeps ago.

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Lille form and stats

Lille are steadily winning Ligue 1 games and points here at Stade Pierre-Mauroy. 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 8 games.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier not having conceded a league goal in 212 minutes.

It's back home for Lille, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Clermont away with the result 2-0. Gomes and Bayo found the net in that victory. Gomes, who usually plays near the opponent's goal, was the top performer for the team in that match, collecting a rating of 7.93 (out of 10). Gomes scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 33 successful passes (of 39 total).

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Angers SCO in a game that was won 1-0.

A decent goal production from Lille in their home games so far, with 15 goals from 8 league matches. Lille have conceded 15 from these games.

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Reims form and stats

Reims have only collected 8 points from their away games in the Ligue 1, after 1-5-2 (8 played). The travelling team now have four draws in a row when competing in away matches.

Reims are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the match against Rennes (placed 4th). The attacker Balogun got a match rating of 8.65 in that game. Balogun scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

A 1-1 draw at Montpellier's stadium before that.

Reims find the net regularly in their away games. 9 goals from 8 away fixtures in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Reims have conceded 11 goals in these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Lille four wins, three draws and Reims three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

ReimsF. Balogun
F. Balogun
10 goals
LilleJ. David
J. David
9 goals
LilleJ. Bamba
J. Bamba
4 goals

Lille missing players

Reims missing players

Lille Reims
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
16 8 2 Played P 1 8 16
9 5 1 Won W 0 1 4
2 1 0 Drew D 0 5 8
5 2 1 Lost L 1 2 4
29 15 3 Scored S 1 9 19
23 15 3 Conceded C 4 11 22
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 75% 81%
81% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 62% 69%
62% 62% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 38% 44%
31% 38% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 38% 31%
19% 38% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 25% 19%
69% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 62% 62%
25% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 25%
6% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 38% 31%
 
5.3 4.9 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 7 4.5 4.8
4 4.9 5 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.9 5.2
2.2 2.2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.5 2.5
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 5 8
 
14.7 15 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 16 11.6 13.4
5.1 5.9 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 3.9 4.8
36% 32% 30% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 29% 25%
 
8.6 9.5 9 Shots against (avg) S A 16 14 14.6
3.2 3.9 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 5 4.9
Key stats in Ligue 1 this season:
  • Lille have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Lille haven’t played a single 0-0 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 Paris Saint Germain 16 14 2 0 45 10 8 7 1 0 21 8 8 7 1 0 24 2 35 44
2 Lens 16 11 4 1 26 10 8 8 0 0 18 6 8 3 4 1 8 4 16 37
3 Olympique Marseille 16 10 3 3 32 14 9 6 1 2 18 8 7 4 2 1 14 6 18 33
4 Rennes 16 9 4 3 32 17 8 7 0 1 21 6 8 2 4 2 11 11 15 31
5 Monaco 16 9 3 4 32 23 8 3 2 3 15 15 8 6 1 1 17 8 9 30
6 Lille 16 9 2 5 29 23 8 5 1 2 15 15 8 4 1 3 14 8 6 29
7 Lorient 16 8 4 4 26 23 8 4 1 3 12 11 8 4 3 1 14 12 3 28
8 Olympique Lyonnais 16 7 3 6 27 20 8 5 2 1 16 6 8 2 1 5 11 14 7 24
9 Nice 16 5 6 5 15 17 8 2 3 3 6 9 8 3 3 2 9 8 -2 21
10 Reims 16 4 8 4 19 22 8 3 3 2 10 11 8 1 5 2 9 11 -3 20
11 Clermont 16 5 4 7 19 25 8 3 1 4 8 15 8 2 3 3 11 10 -6 19
12 Montpellier 16 5 2 9 26 29 8 3 1 4 11 13 8 2 1 5 15 16 -3 17
13 Toulouse 16 4 4 8 21 33 8 3 3 2 13 14 8 1 1 6 8 19 -12 16
14 Troyes 16 3 6 7 26 31 8 1 6 1 10 11 8 2 0 6 16 20 -5 15
15 Ajaccio 16 4 3 9 15 24 8 2 1 5 7 13 8 2 2 4 8 11 -9 15
16 Nantes 16 2 8 6 17 24 7 2 4 1 11 9 9 0 4 5 6 15 -7 14
17 Brest 16 3 4 9 18 32 8 1 3 4 7 17 8 2 1 5 11 15 -14 13
18 Auxerre 16 3 4 9 16 34 8 2 3 3 9 12 8 1 1 6 7 22 -18 13
19 Strasbourg 16 1 8 7 18 28 8 0 5 3 7 13 8 1 3 4 11 15 -10 11
20 Angers SCO 16 2 2 12 15 35 8 1 1 6 9 18 8 1 1 6 6 17 -20 8

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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.