On Thursday night at "Stade de
Gerland" we can watch the meeting between Lyon and Reims of the 16th round
of Ligue 1 in France.
Lyon are in excellent shape and marked victory after victory. Here at
"Stade de Gerland", they conceded only one loss for the past 7 games
and six victories. “Lions” are motivated to fight hard to rank in the top three
places in the league, which will send them directly to the Champions League.
The bookmaker Bet365 offers a bet on the triumph of Lyon
at odds of 1.50, which is quite normal. Lyon
now takes the third place in the table with a total of 27 points, which is 8
points less than the first Marseille. With equal points behind them are Bordeaux, which means
that they have no right of error. The last two rounds were not lucky for Lyon
and after the draw with Bastia,
they allowed to be beaten away from St Etienne 3-0. This defeat by interrupted
their great series in which they had entered, namely 10 matches unbeaten.
Clement Grenier is still injured and with punishment are Gurkuf, Gueyda Fofana
and Milan Bishevats. However, Hubert Fournier has quite experienced players,
but in good shape is his striker Alexander Lakazet on which is the main hope
for goals in the door of Reims.
Reims occupies the ninth position, but not
with so much less points then Lyon - only 5.
Head coach Jean-Luc Vasseur comes in Lyon after defeating Bastia and with
statistics for the past three visits with no one loss. The team have several
problematic players in the face of Alexis Pyodzhe, Sasha Bashtayn, Ahlbeck and
Anthony Webber. Also Nicholas Preval is questionable.
Last 5 direct meetings:
19.01.2014 Reims – Lyon
0:2
18.12.2013 Lyon – Reims
3:2
24.08.2013 Lyon – Reims
0:1
07.04.2013 Reims – Lyon
1:0
18.11.2012 Lyon – Reims
3:0
Security: 8/10
Odds: 1.50 at bet 365
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