Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Olympique Lyonnais welcomes Brest

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Competition: France Ligue 1
Competition: Wed 16.December
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Groupama OL Academy Décines-Charpieu (40494 seats)

2nd position in the Ligue 1 table for Olympique Lyonnais so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 10th-placed Brest visits Groupama OL Academy Décines-Charpieu.

Insights:
  • Olympique Lyonnais have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Brest has the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Ligue 1

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.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Brest, who are travelling more than 900 kilometers to play this game.

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Olympique Lyonnais form and stats

14 points is a decent return from 6 Ligue 1 games here at Groupama OL Academy Décines-Charpieu for Olympique Lyonnais. The data says 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. Olympique haven’t lost a league-game in eleven attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Montpellier, 92 days ago. It’s been three wins in a row for Olympique here at Groupama OL Academy Décines-Charpieu, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Happy days for Olympique in their previous game, a Ligue 1 match away at PSG (placed 3rd) that ended with a 1-0 victory. In the preceding match a 3-1 victory visiting Metz.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Olympique home games with this odds we find seven games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in five wins, two draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, three matches were won by at least two goals.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Olympique as they are travelling to their away game against Nice in the Ligue 1. That match is three days after this one.

The Olympique manager R. Garcia has got the team scoring with 14 from 6 home games in the league. From these home matches, Olympique Lyonnais have conceded only 4 goals.

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Brest form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Brest so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 2-0-5 (win-draw-lose).

The supporters enjoyed Brest's previous game versus Reims (placed 19th), a Ligue 1 2-1 win played at home. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Bordeaux wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Brest played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected two times.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Montpellier in just four days.

Brest have scored 8 goals on their travels this season, from 7 away games in the league. Brest struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 13 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Olympique Lyonnais-Brest H2H statistics last eight meetings regardless of arena: Olympique three wins, Brest zero wins, five draws. two of these eight matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Olympique LyonnaisK. Toko Ekambi
K. Toko Ekambi
7 goals
Olympique LyonnaisM. Depay
M. Depay
6 goals
Olympique LyonnaisT. Kadewere
T. Kadewere
5 goals

Olympique Lyonnais missing players

Brest missing players

Olympique Lyonnais Brest
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
14 6 0 Played P 0 7 14
8 4 0 Won W 0 2 7
5 2 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 5 7
25 14 0 Scored S 0 8 23
11 4 0 Conceded C 0 13 25
86% 83% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
71% 83% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 86% 86%
50% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 57% 71%
29% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 43% 50%
21% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 36%
64% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 43% 57%
36% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 29% 21%
14% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 21%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.3 2.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2 2
5 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
15.7 17.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 13.1 12.8
4.6 4.8 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4.3 4.6
39% 48% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 27% 35%
Key stats in Ligue 1 this season:
  • Brest has the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Ligue 1
  • Brest haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Olympique Lyonnais have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Olympique Lyonnais have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Olympique Lyonnais have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Lille 14 8 5 1 26 10 8 6 2 0 17 4 6 2 3 1 9 6 16 29
2 Olympique Lyonnais 14 8 5 1 25 11 6 4 2 0 14 4 8 4 3 1 11 7 14 29
3 PSG 14 9 1 4 33 10 7 4 1 2 16 5 7 5 0 2 17 5 23 28
4 Olympique Marseille 12 8 3 1 19 10 6 3 2 1 10 7 6 5 1 0 9 3 9 27
5 Montpellier 14 8 2 4 25 21 7 4 0 3 14 14 7 4 2 1 11 7 4 26
6 Monaco 14 7 2 5 25 20 7 5 2 0 18 8 7 2 0 5 7 12 5 23
7 Angers SCO 14 7 2 5 20 22 7 3 1 3 7 9 7 4 1 2 13 13 -2 23
8 Rennes 14 6 4 4 20 18 7 3 1 3 9 10 7 3 3 1 11 8 2 22
9 Lens 13 6 3 4 21 21 7 3 2 2 13 12 6 3 1 2 8 9 0 21
10 Brest 14 7 0 7 23 25 7 5 0 2 15 12 7 2 0 5 8 13 -2 21
11 Bordeaux 14 5 4 5 14 15 7 3 3 1 6 2 7 2 1 4 8 13 -1 19
12 Nice 13 5 3 5 16 16 7 2 1 4 7 12 6 3 2 1 9 4 0 18
13 Metz 14 4 5 5 15 16 7 3 1 3 9 9 7 1 4 2 6 7 -1 17
14 Nantes 14 3 5 6 15 23 7 2 3 2 9 13 7 1 2 4 6 10 -8 14
15 Saint-Etienne 14 3 4 7 12 20 7 2 2 3 6 8 7 1 2 4 6 12 -8 13
16 Strasbourg 14 3 2 9 20 26 7 1 2 4 6 12 7 2 0 5 14 14 -6 11
17 Lorient 14 3 2 9 15 24 7 2 1 4 9 9 7 1 1 5 6 15 -9 11
18 Nimes 14 3 2 9 11 27 7 1 1 5 8 17 7 2 1 4 3 10 -16 11
19 Reims 14 2 4 8 17 24 6 1 1 4 3 8 8 1 3 4 14 16 -7 10
20 Dijon 14 1 6 7 9 22 7 0 4 3 3 7 7 1 2 4 6 15 -13 9

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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.