Lyon vs Monaco Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Lyon

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Lyon will be looking for an improved result here following the 2-1 Ligue 1 losing effort in their last game against Clermont Foot.

In that game, Lyon managed 62% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Lyon was Alexandre Lacazette (21'). Clermont Foot had 9 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Grejohn Kyei (25', 65') scored for Clermont Foot.

Fixtures featuring Lyon have proved to be entertaining encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past six games alone, a grand total of 25 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 4.17 goals per game) with 14 of these belonging to Lyon.

Ahead of this meeting, Lyon have not emerged victorious against Monaco in their last 2 league matches.

Monaco

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In their last game, Monaco drew 0-0 in the Ligue 1 match with Lille.

In that match, Monaco had 41% possession and 8 shots at goal with 1 on target. For their opponents, Lille had 10 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

Looking at their form, and Monaco have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 11 goals in total. Defensively, Monaco can certainly do much better. We will see if that trend will end up being continued on here.

Going into this contest, Monaco haven't won against Lyon in away games against them for the last 4 league matches. Not good.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels dating back to 25/10/2020, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Lyon winning 3 of those games, Monaco 3 and 0 being drawn in normal time.

A total of 19 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 10 from Lyon and 9 for Les Rouge et Blanc. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.17.

The previous league meeting featuring these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 7 on 11/09/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Monaco 2-1 Lyon.

That time, Monaco managed 39% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Goals were scored by Benoît Badiashile (56') and Guillermo Maripán (63').

Lyon got 20 shots at goal with 6 on target. Karl Toko Ekambi (81') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Clément Turpin.

ℹ️ Team News: Lyon

The Lyon manager Laurent Blanc has a full complement, with no fitness concerns at all coming into this game thanks to a fully injury-free group to pick from.

It looks as if Lyon may well use a 3-4-1-2 formation for this one with Anthony Lopes, Sinaly Diomande, Dejan Lovren, Castello Lukeba, Malo Gusto, Nicolas Tagliafico, Maxence Caqueret, Corentin Tolisso, Rayan Cherki, Amin Sarr and Alexandre Lacazette.

📋 Team News: Monaco

Monaco boss Philippe Clement has some current player fitness concerns. Malang Sarr (Muscle Injury) and Breel Embolo (Knee Problems) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We are inclined to think that Les Rouge et Blanc appear most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 system, settling for Alexander Nuebel, Vanderson, Axel Disasi, Chrislain Matsima, Caio Henrique, Youssouf Fofana, Eliot Matazo, Takumi Minamino, Aleksandr Golovin, Ismail Jakobs and Myron Boadu.

💭 Prediction

We envisage that Monaco have it in them to get a goal against this Lyon lineup, however that might not be enough to prevent defeat.

We reckon that it will be a narrow 2-1 victory for Lyon by the conclusion of the game. Let’s see what happens here.

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Renata Leite, 01:25 15/05/2023