📏 Form Guide

Lyon

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Lyon will be wanting a better result here following a 2-1 Ligue 1 loss in their previous game against St Etienne.

In that match, Lyon managed 60% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for Lyon was Tanner Tessmann (76'). Saint-Etienne had 18 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Lucas Stassin (10', 67') scored for St Etienne.

Fixtures featuring Lyon have often been absorbing ones of late with a lot of goalmouth action being a common characteristic. Over their past half dozen clashes, the sum total of 29 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 4.83 goals per game) with 14 of those being chalked up by Lyon. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be continued into this next game, though.

Their past results show that Lyon:

• are winless against Rennes in their last 2 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 home league matches.

Rennes

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Rennes go into this meeting after a 2-1 Ligue 1 win vs Nantes in their previous match.

In that game, Rennes had 65% possession and 19 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Rennes, the goals were scored by Adrien Truffert (23') and Mohamed Meïté (86'). On the other side, Nantes got 4 shots on goal with 1 on target. Mostafa Mohamed (54') was the scorer for Nantes.

Looking at their form, and Rennes have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 8 goals in all. At the back, Rennes have clearly had some problems.

Coming into this contest, Rennes haven't been defeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 13/03/2022 shows that Lyon have won 2 of them & Rennes 4, with the tally of drawn games standing at 0.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 24 in total at an average of 4 goals per meeting.

The previous league fixture between the two was Ligue 1 match day 1 on 18/08/2024 when the final score was Rennes 3-0 Lyon.

In that game, Rennes managed 48% possession and 22 attempts at goal with 8 on target. The goals were scored by Benjamin Bourigeaud (19'), Amine Gouiri (21') and Henrik Meister (91').

On the other side, Lyon got 14 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

The referee was Benoît Millot.

📋 Team News: Lyon

There’s just a single fitness concern for the Lyon manager Jorge Maciel to be concerned about from an otherwise complete squad. Ernest Nuamah (Cruciate ligament tear) is out of contention.

We are thinking that Lyon will probably go for a 4-2-3-1 system for this game, handing starts to Lucas Perri, A. Maitland-Niles, Clinton Mata, Moussa Niakhate, Nicolas Tagliafico, Corentin Tolisso, Nemanja Matic, Rayan Cherki, Thiago Almada, Malick Fofana and Alexandre Lacazette.

ℹ️ Team News: Rennes

Out of a mainly available group of players, there is only the one fitness issue for the Rennes gaffer Habib Beye to be concerned about. Alidu Seidu (Cruciate ligament tear) misses out for this game.

We reckon that Rennes might elect for a 3-5-2 lineup using Brice Samba, Jeremy Jacquet, Anthony Rouault, Lilian Brassier, Lorenz Assignon, Azor Matusiwa, Djaoui Cisse, Seko Fofana, Adrien Truffert, Mousa Tamari and A. Kalimuendo-Muinga.

⚡ Prediction

We’re thinking that Lyon will most probably stay in control for long periods of time and should be able to convert a few of the chances that they create.

However, Rennes won’t find it easy to break down their defence but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be scoring here as well.

We’re predicting a pretty comfortable 3-1 win for Lyon at the conclusion of the game.

Victor Martins, 19:07 26/04/2025