Football match betting preview: Monaco vs Olympique Lyonnais

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Competition: France Ligue 1
Competition: Sat 05.February
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Louis II. (18523 seats)

A classic home victory, the away team steals the points or an exciting draw? Anything can happen when the mid-table sides Monaco and Olympique Lyonnais clash at Stade Louis II..

Insights:
  • Monaco have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Monaco have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Olympique Lyonnais have scored away.

Olympique Lyonnais 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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Monaco form and stats

The story so far in the Ligue 1 for Monaco at their home stadium (Stade Louis II.) is 6 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats. Monaco are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

The attacker Yedder won the honour of being "man of the match" for Monaco with a rating of 8.5/10. Yedder scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 4 of 5 times.

Prior to that, an away loss at Montpellier in the Ligue 1.

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

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Amiens SC are coming to town in three days.

Goals decide football matches and Monaco are scoring many of them at home; 23 on target from 11 league matches.

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Olympique Lyonnais form and stats

As the visiting team in Ligue 1 matches, Olympique Lyonnais have produced an overall stat of 3-3-4 so far.

Olympique Lyonnais won their last game, 2-1 versus Olympique Marseille played at home. The attacker Shaqiri got a match rating of 8.6 in that game. Shaqiri scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 25 successful passes (of 30 total).

That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Saint-Etienne.

Olympique Lyonnais have conceded 15 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The previous head-to-head encounter ended Olympique Lyonnais - Monaco 2-0, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Monaco victories, zero draws and seven Olympique Lyonnais wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less. The matches between these teams have sometimes been hostile, having seen 11 red cards from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

MonacoW. Ben Yedder
W. Ben Yedder
13 goals
Olympique LyonnaisL. Tolentino Coelho de Lima
L. Tolentino Coelho de Lima
7 goals
Olympique LyonnaisM. Dembélé
M. Dembélé
7 goals

Monaco missing players

Olympique Lyonnais missing players

Monaco Olympique Lyonnais
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 3 10 22
9 6 0 Won W 1 3 9
6 3 2 Drew D 1 3 8
7 2 1 Lost L 1 4 5
35 23 3 Scored S 1 10 31
26 11 5 Conceded C 3 15 28
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 90% 95%
86% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 60% 77%
55% 64% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 50%
41% 45% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 30% 27%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 14%
50% 55% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 68%
23% 27% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 40% 27%
36% 18% 33% Failed to Score F T 67% 20% 9%
 
5.4 6.3 8 Corners for (avg) C F 4.3 4.5 4.9
3.3 3.1 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 5.7 5
2.1 1.5 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4.3 2.4 1.9
2 2 2 Red cards R C 2 4 5
 
11.5 12.1 13 Shots (avg) S ( 11.3 12.8 13.8
4.2 4.4 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 3.9 4.5
38% 48% 23% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 26% 31%
 
9.6 9.1 8.3 Shots against (avg) S A 15.3 15.1 12.9
3.4 2.8 3.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 5.7 5
Key stats in Ligue 1 this season:
  • All of Monaco's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Monaco have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Monaco have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Monaco have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Olympique Lyonnais have scored away.
  • Monaco have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Monaco haven’t played a single 0-0 game at 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 22 16 5 1 46 18 11 10 1 0 27 6 11 6 4 1 19 12 28 53
2 Nice 22 13 4 5 36 18 11 5 3 3 16 13 11 8 1 2 20 5 18 42
3 Olympique Marseille 22 11 7 4 31 18 11 4 5 2 17 11 11 7 2 2 14 7 13 40
4 Strasbourg 22 10 5 7 44 29 11 6 2 3 26 13 11 4 3 4 18 16 15 35
5 Rennes 22 10 4 8 41 21 11 7 1 3 25 8 11 3 3 5 16 13 20 34
6 Montpellier 22 10 4 8 37 30 12 7 2 3 22 13 10 3 2 5 15 17 7 34
7 Olympique Lyonnais 22 9 8 5 31 28 12 6 5 1 21 13 10 3 3 4 10 15 3 34
8 Monaco 22 9 6 7 35 26 11 6 3 2 23 11 11 3 3 5 12 15 9 33
9 Lens 22 9 6 7 36 31 11 5 4 2 19 11 11 4 2 5 17 20 5 33
10 Nantes 22 9 5 8 30 27 11 6 2 3 18 12 11 3 3 5 12 15 3 32
11 Lille 22 8 8 6 30 30 10 5 4 1 14 11 12 3 4 5 16 19 0 32
12 Angers SCO 22 7 8 7 28 29 11 5 1 5 14 14 11 2 7 2 14 15 -1 29
13 Brest 22 7 7 8 28 33 11 4 3 4 15 16 11 3 4 4 13 17 -5 28
14 Reims 22 5 9 8 22 27 10 3 3 4 11 11 12 2 6 4 11 16 -5 24
15 Clermont 22 5 6 11 22 39 11 3 4 4 12 14 11 2 2 7 10 25 -17 21
16 Troyes 22 5 5 12 20 31 11 2 4 5 11 13 11 3 1 7 9 18 -11 20
17 Bordeaux 22 4 8 10 34 53 12 2 4 6 19 24 10 2 4 4 15 29 -19 20
18 Metz 22 4 7 11 24 43 11 1 4 6 14 23 11 3 3 5 10 20 -19 19
19 Lorient 22 3 8 11 18 38 10 3 4 3 8 9 12 0 4 8 10 29 -20 17
20 Saint-Etienne 22 3 6 13 19 43 11 1 4 6 11 23 11 2 2 7 8 20 -24 15

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Read more about Ligue 1

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.