Bordeaux vs FC Lorient Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Girondins de Bordeaux

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Bordeaux enter this match after a 0-0 Ligue 1 draw vs FC Metz.

In that game, Girondins de Bordeaux had 58% possession and 12 shots at goal with 3 on target. On the other side, FC Metz had 9 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

Over their past 6 games, Jean-Louis Gasset's Girondins de Bordeaux have seen rewards for their attempts on goal 6 times, an average number of goals scored per match of 1.

Pre-game facts show that Girondins de Bordeaux:

• haven't been beaten in the league by FC Lorient in their previous 3 games.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 matches in the league.

FC Lorient

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Since a loss in their previous game against Monaco in Ligue 1 competition, FC Lorient will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, FC Lorient had 39% possession and 11 shots at goal with 5 on target. For FC Lorient, the goals were scored by Terem Moffi (31') and Andrew Gravillon (67'). AS Monaco FC had 14 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Axel Disasi (9'), Aleksandr Golovin (64'), Kevin Volland (68'), Sofiane Diop (78') and Guillermo Maripán (89') scored for Monaco.

The stats don’t lie, and FC Lorient have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 14 goals in total. Defensively, Les Merlus have clearly had some problems.

Going into this encounter, FC Lorient haven’t won away from home in the past 5 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head meetings stretching back to 02/05/2015 tells us that Bordeaux have won 3 of these and FC Lorient 1, with the number of drawn results being 2.

An aggregate of 16 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 10 of them for Les Girondins and 6 netted by Les Merlus. The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 38 on 20/05/2017 which finished with the scoreline of FC Lorient 1-1 Girondins de Bordeaux.

That time, FC Lorient managed 39% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Vincent Le Goff (69').

At the other end, Girondins de Bordeaux got 10 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Younousse Sankharé (7') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Antony Gautier.

📋 Team News: Bordeaux

Bordeaux manager Jean-Louis Gasset doesn’t have any fitness worries at all before this match owing to a fully healthy squad ready to go.

📋 Team News: FC Lorient

Thanks to a completely injury-free squad to pick from, FC Lorient boss Christophe Pélissier has no fitness worries at all before this game.

🧠 Prediction

In our opinion, FC Lorient may not find it easy to get anything against this Bordeaux team who we think will likely be able to grind out a win.

We therefore fancy a very competitive game with a 1-0 advantage for Bordeaux when all is said and done.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

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Andre Moura, 00:09 05/01/2021