Lyon vs AC Ajaccio Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Lyon

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Lyon will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 1-2 Ligue 1 success vs Clermont Foot.

In that match, Lyon had 55% possession and 21 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Lyon, the scorers were Moussa Dembélé (26') and Houssem Aouar (49'). For their opponents, Clermont Foot had 18 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Mohamed Bayo (59') scored for Clermont Foot.

At least three goals per match were recorded in 6 of the past 6 fixtures where Lyon have participated. Opposing sides scored 10 of them in these games while Lyon amassed a tally of 16. We shall soon find out if that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

AC Ajaccio

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AC Ajaccio go into this encounter following on from a 1-0 Ligue 2 win versus Toulouse in their most recent game.

The only scorer from AC Ajaccio was Riad Nouri (28').

A run of dependable performances by the AC Ajaccio defensive unit has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 3 from their last 6 clashes combined. Over that same time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 9.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 13/05/2012 shows that Lyon have won 3 of these games & AC Ajaccio 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A combined sum of 21 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 13 from Lyon and 8 created by L 'Ours. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

📋 Team News: Lyon

There’s just a single fitness concern for the Lyon boss Peter Bosz to be concerned about due to a largely intact squad. Maxence Caqueret (Sprained ankle) misses out.

It seems likely that Lyon will possibly make use of the 4-1-4-1 formation for this game featuring Anthony Lopes, Malo Gusto, Thiago Mendes, Castello Lukeba, Nicolas Tagliafico, Johann Lepenant, Tete, Houssem Aouar, Lucas Paqueta, Karl Toko Ekambi and Alexandre Lacazette.

📰 Team News: AC Ajaccio

Owing to a completely healthy group available for selection, the AC Ajaccio manager Olivier Pantaloni does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this clash.

We believe L 'Ours might make use of a 4-4-2 formation by sending out Benjamin Leroy, Mickael Alphonse, Cedric Avinel, Oumar Gonzalez, Ismael Diallo, Cyrille Bayala, Thomas Mangani, Vincent Marchetti, Ryad Nouri, Romain Hamouma and Mounaim El Idrissy.

💡 Prediction

In this match, AC Ajaccio will surely find it tough to find the net against a Lyon side who appear set to control this match over the entire pitch.

We’re therefore predicting a 3-0 margin for Lyon at the end of this one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 23:41 31/07/2022