Pre-match information:
Place: Groupama Stadium.
Date: on the 23rd of November, 2018 (Friday)
Match start: 21:00 (GMT+1)
Tournament: France. Ligue 1
Lyon
Before vacation in November Lyon won an important victory over the underdog – Guingamp.
The double was scored by Memphis Depay.Olympique has lengthened its undefeated streak up to four matches.
Bruno Génésio‘s team takes the fourth place with 24 points. Second Lille and the third team Montpellier have two and one points more.
At the end of November the hosts will have to play with dangerous Drugs.
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Etienne did not lose in the same four rounds. A draw with Rennais and Nîmes came after the victories over Angers and Reims.
Jean-Louis Gassée’s team has 23 points and it was placed under Lyon. The Saints have only two defeats: from the leader PSG (0:4) and Lille which takes the second place (1:3).
At the end of November the Greens will have to meet with Nantes.
Statistics and head-to- heads Lyon vs Saint-Étienne
Lyon misses on average 1.23 goals in one match.
Only in one match at home field Lyon has missed more than one goal.
Only in one away match Saint-Etienne has scored more than one goal.
Head-to-heads of the last season ended in such a way: in Lyon 1:1, in Saint-Etienne 0:5.
Bookmaker coefficients on the match Lyon vs Saint-Étienne
Lyon to win – 1.63
Draw – 4.5;
Saint-Étienne to win – 5.7
Match prediction
This match can be considered to be the main in the round.
Lyon is the favorite but the results of this club have no positive stability and failures happen quite often.
In such situation, we prefer to choose guests’ total counting on reliability of defense of the hosts.