📊 Form Guide

Lille

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Lille, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 2-1 Conference League triumph over Aston Villa.

For Lille, the scorers were Yusuf Yazıcı (15') and Benjamin André (67'). Matty Cash (87') was the scorer for Aston Villa. Aston Villa won the match 3-4 in a dramatic penalty shootout.

Lille haven’t had any problems with scoring, finding the back of the net every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 games.

They have managed to rack up 10 during that period while also conceding a total of 6. Still, it remains to be seen whether that pattern might continue on here in this match or not.

Going into this encounter, Lille are unbeaten in their previous 11 home league matches. It's been impressive.

Strasbourg

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Strasbourg come into this meeting following on from a 3-1 Ligue 1 win with the downing of Reims in their previous fixture.

In that match, Strasbourg had 48% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Strasbourg, the goalscorers were Kévin Gameiro (44'), Abakar Sylla (50') and Moïse Sahi (93'). At the other end, Reims got 8 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Keito Nakamura (7') was the scorer for Reims.

Patrick Vieira's Strasbourg have turned their attacks into goals a total of 10 times in the course of their previous 6 matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during that same period equals 5.

Pre-game facts show that Strasbourg:

• haven't won against Lille in away games against them for the last 6 matches in the league. Not the best of away records.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 28/02/2021 tells us that Lille have won 4 of these & Strasbourg 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A sum of 14 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 10 from LOSC and 4 for Le Racing. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.33.

The previous league game between the two was Ligue 1 match day 17 on 20/12/2023 when it ended Strasbourg 2-1 Lille.

That time, Strasbourg managed 32% possession and 9 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Goals were scored by Abakar Sylla (20' Own goal) and Junior Mwanga (76').

At the other end, Lille had 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Leny Yoro (41' Own goal) scored.

The match was refereed by Clément Turpin.

ℹ️ Team News: Lille

There is just the lone fitness concern for the Lille gaffer Paulo Fonseca to be concerned about from a near full-strength group of players. Samuel Umtiti (Knee surgery) is sidelined.

We are thinking that LOSC could line up in a 4-2-3-1 system for this one, handing starts to Lucas Chevalier, Tiago Santos, Leny Yoro, Alexsandro Ribeiro, Ismaily, Angel Gomes, Benjamin Andre, Edon Zhegrova, H. Arnar Haraldsson, Gabriel Gudmundsson and Jonathan David.

ℹ️ Team News: Strasbourg

Strasbourg boss Patrick Vieira has a number of players out of action. Lebo Mothiba (Patellar tendon rupture) and Karol Fila (Cruciate ligament tear) are those who can’t be considered.

From our viewpoint, Le Racing might begin the game with a 3-4-3 formation using Alaa Bellaarouch, Saidou Sow, Lucas Perrin, Ismael Doukoure, Frederic Guilbert, Andrey Santos, Ibrahima Sissoko, Thomas Delaine, Dilane Bakwa, Kevin Gameiro and Dion Sahi.

💡 Prediction

We envisage that Lille will likely create enough chances to score more than one against Strasbourg, who could well struggle to get a goal of their own.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a comfortable 2-0 winning margin for Lille at the end of this one.

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

Victor Martins, 12:01 21/04/2024