Lorient vs Lyon prediction: FRANCE: Ligue 1 betting tips on match 2022-09-06 17:00.
It’s take two for Lorient and Lyon following the earlier postponement due to Lorient’s damaged pitch. With a wealth of squad changes this term in a bid to avoid repeating last season’s lowly 16th-place finish, the early signs have been encouraging for the hosts, who have opened the campaign with four unbeaten games from five (W3, D1, L1).
This is Lorient’s best start to a top-flight league season since picking up one more point at this stage in 2012/13, a campaign in which they finished in the top-half. Yet Lorient still haven’t recorded back-to-back league wins since May 2021, indicating that doubling up on their 1-0 win over Ajaccio at the weekend may be tough for Régis Le Bris’ men, heightened by the fact Lorient have won just one of the last eight home H2Hs in Ligue 1 against their visitors (D4, L3).
Lyon have also started their campaign strongly, remaining unbeaten across the opening five rounds to extend their overall Ligue 1 unbeaten run to seven games (W6, D1). This hot streak includes Peter Bosz’s best ever winning league run as Lyon boss (W4), though he now seeks a resurgent away performance after overseeing victories in just two of his last seven road trips (D3, L2).
That is an expectation rather than a hope, especially when considering that only Marseille (17) have defeated Lorient more often than Lyon have in Ligue 1 encounters (W16, D9, L5). Boosted by new boys Alexandre Lacazette (G3), who scored in the weekend’s 5-0 demolition of Angers, and midfield maestro Corentin Tolisso, Lyon look primed to extend their unbeaten start to the league season to six for the first time since 2012/13.
Players to watch: Lorient’s Terem Moffi has scored 12 league goals since the start of last season, eight of which came at home, including one in this fixture (L 4-1). He’ll be trying to outdo Lyon’s Karl Toko Ekambi, who has made goal contributions in each of the last four respective halves (G3, A1) and also scored home & away against Lorient last term.
Hot stat: Five of Lyon’s last six Ligue 1 victories saw them lead at half-time.