Olympique Lyon and Angers obtain the fifth round of the French League 1 in progress when they lock the horns at the Groupama stadium on Friday. Lyon de Paulo Fonseca heads for the weekend on a series of five consecutive victories on visitors and will seek to extend this dominant sequence.
Olympique Lyon was designed to counterbalance its waste in front of the goal last Sunday, when they fell to a 3-1 defeat against Stade Rennais in Roazhon Park.
Before that, the Fonseca team won three victories of their three games to start the new campaign, seeing the goal, Metz and Olympique Marseille while scoring five goals and keeping three clean leaves.
Lyon will imagine their chances of returning to victory this weekend while they will face an opposing team which has lost each of the last five clashes between the games, in a hot race since their 3-0 victory in August 2021.
On the other hand, Angers needed a 90th minute penalty from Himad Abdelli to save a 1-1 draw against Metz at Stade Saint-Symphorien last Sunday.
Since the start of the season with a 1-0 victory against Paris FC, the men of Alexandre Dujeux have failed to taste the victory during their three subsequent outings, losing 1-0 against Paris Saint-Germain on August 22 before playing successive impassions against Stade Rennais and Metz.
Angers collected five points among the first 12 available this season to sit 12th in the Ligue 1 ranking, four points behind the hosts of this weekend in fourth place.
Olympique Lyon vs Angers head-to-head and key numbers
- With 13 victories from the last 17 meetings between the games, Olympique Lyon has a higher record in the history of this match.
- Angers won two victories during this period, while the loot was shared twice.
- Lyon is undefeated in their last eight home games against Dujeux’s men, winning seven victories and a draw since a 2-0 defeat in December 2015.
- Angers failed to win seven of his last eight games outside Ligue 1, losing five and picking up two draws since the third week of February.
- Lyon has lost only one of their last 10 competitive home games while winning six victories and three draws since the beginning of March.
Olympique Lyon vs Angers prediction
Freshly out of the back of his first defeat in the championship of the season, Lyon will go to Friday’s shock by trying to make an immediate reaction and return to victory. Angers had trouble cringing results during their travels and we whispered the men of Fonseca to extend their domination in this match.
Prediction: Olympique Lyon 2-0 Angers
Olympique Lyon vs Angers Conseil de Paris
Tip 1: Result – Lyon to win
Tip 2: more than 2.5 goals – no (there have been less than three goals scored in the last 10 Angers games)
Tip 3: more than 10.5 corners – No (there have also been less than 11 corner kicks in seven of the last eight visitors)
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