Read up on this entertaining match in the Ligue 1. Nantes is in the 15th spot after completing five games. They host Lorient who are placed 12th after five games.
- Nantes have yet to win a game at home.
- Lorient have yet to win a game away.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Lorient have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 9-11-19 (win-draw-loss) from 39 matches.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Nantes form and stats
Nantes have played three Ligue 1 home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 2 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
Happy days for Nantes in their previous game, a fixture away at Clermont (placed 17th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. At last, a league win after four fixtures without one. Midfielder Simon was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.81 (out of ten) in that game. Simon scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Olympique Marseille.This is expected to be a close game, with Nantes perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Nantes as a small favourite), we find 8 games. Nantes has won 7 of these, drawn 1 and lost 0.
The Nantes fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 5 goals in 3 league matches.
Lorient form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Ligue 1 for Lorient with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts.
Lorient delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Monaco (placed 1st) in their previous fixture. Faivre, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.2. Faivre scored one goal, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 4 of 7 times and had 30 successful passes (of 34 total).
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Le Havre wasn't a success with a 0-3 loss.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 11 similar matches played by Lorient in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Lorient, 4 draws and 3 defeats.
Lorient have the goal stats of 0-3 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Nantes victories, one draw and four Lorient wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Abdallah 4 goals |   R. Faivre 2 goals |  J. Castelletto 1 goals |
Nantes missing players
Lorient missing players
| Nantes | Lorient | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 8 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 50% | 80% |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 80% |
| 40% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 20% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 40% |
| 20% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 60% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 60% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 20% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 40% |
| 3.6 | 3.3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3 | 3.8 |
| 7 | 7.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 7 | 7.4 |
| 1.8 | 1.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.8 | 7.3 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6.5 | 8.2 |
| 3.8 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 1 | 2.6 |
| 32% | 56% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 54% |
| 19.2 | 20.7 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 18.5 | 19.2 |
| 7 | 8 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 6.4 |
- All of Nantes's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Lorient have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Lorient have failed to score a single goal away.
- Lorient have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Lorient have yet to win a game away.
- Nantes have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Nantes have yet to win a game at home.
- Nantes haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Nantes | Last season | Lorient | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 19 | Played | P | 19 | 38 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Won | W | 6 | 15 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Drew | D | 6 | 10 | ||
| 16 | 6 | Lost | L | 7 | 13 | ||
| 37 | 20 | Scored | S | 26 | 52 | ||
| 55 | 26 | Conceded | C | 32 | 53 | ||
| 84% | 89% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 95% | 89% | ||
| 71% | 68% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 76% | ||
| 47% | 47% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 61% | ||
| 26% | 32% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 47% | 34% | ||
| 11% | 5% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 11% | 8% | ||
| 47% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 74% | 66% | ||
| 29% | 26% | Clean Sheets | C S | 16% | 21% | ||
| 39% | 42% | Failed to Score | F T | 16% | 24% | ||
| 5.2 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 3.8 | ||
| 5 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.9 | 5.6 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 1.3 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 11.9 | 13.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 10.7 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 4.2 | ||
| 22% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 32% | ||
| 12.6 | 12.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16.6 | 15.2 | ||
| 5.1 | 4.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 4.9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Monaco | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 11 |
| 2 | Brest | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 3 | Nice | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | Olympique Marseille | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | PSG | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 6 | Lille | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| 7 | Metz | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 8 | Rennes | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 9 | Reims | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | Strasbourg | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 11 | Le Havre | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 12 | Lorient | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 13 | Toulouse | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 14 | Montpellier | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 15 | Nantes | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 5 |
| 16 | Olympique Lyonnais | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -7 | 2 |
| 17 | Clermont | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -6 | 1 |
| 18 | Lens | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -7 | 1 |
