FC Lorient vs Rennes Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

FC Lorient

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FC Lorient enter this game following a 1-1 Coupe De France draw vs SC Bastia.

In that game, FC Lorient had 62% possession and 5 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The scorer for FC Lorient was Ibrahima Koné (64'). Bastia got 9 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Joris Sainati (81') scored for SC Bastia. FC Lorient won the match 4-1 in a dramatic penalty shootout.

Fixtures with FC Lorient have often been entertaining affairs recently with a lot of goalmouth action being a common characteristic. Over their past half dozen clashes, a grand total of 21 goals have flown in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 12 of them coming from FC Lorient. Such a pattern might not be sustained into this next game, though.

Going into this one, FC Lorient are without a home win in the past 5 league matches. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Rennes

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Marseille in Coupe De France competition, Rennes and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Rennes managed 51% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Marseille got 11 shots at goal with 3 on target. Mattéo Guendouzi (59') scored for Marseille.

Looking at their form, and Rennes have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 8 goals in total. Defensively, Rennes have seen their frailties exposed.

Their past results show that Rennes:

• remain unbeaten by FC Lorient in away games against them for the last 2 matches in the league.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head meetings going back to 20/12/2020 shows that FC Lorient have won 1 of these games and Rennes 4, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

An aggregate of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 2 for Les Merlus and 12 for Rennes. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The previous league game between these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 1 on 07/08/2022 which ended up with the score at Rennes 0-1 FC Lorient.

In that match, Rennes had 64% possession and 21 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer was Arthur Theate (65' Own goal).

FC Lorient had 8 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Bastien Dechepy.

🗞️ Team News: FC Lorient

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the sole fitness concern for the FC Lorient gaffer Régis Le Bris to contend with thanks to an otherwise robust set of players. Yvon Mvogo (Patella problems) won’t play.

📰 Team News: Rennes

Rennes boss Bruno Génésio has to choose a team with limited availability. Xeka (Injury to the ankle), Arnaud Kalimuendo (Dead Leg), Lorenz Assignon (Cruciate Ligament Injury) and Martin Terrier (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) miss out here.

🔮 Prediction

When taking everything into account, FC Lorient will have a tough ask to score against this Rennes side who we think will be able to grind out a win.

We therefore fancy a good tussle with a 0-1 winning score for Rennes after 90 minutes.

Hoping for a good game.

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Renata Leite, 00:50 23/01/2023