Angers vs. Olympique Lyon Match Preview, Predictions & Tips 28/04/2017

The Match Is Over. Score: 1-2

Angers vs. Olympique Lyon Match Preview:

On coming Friday night, Olympique Lyon set out on a trip to Angers as it will be the duel of the Ligue 1 that unwraps the round 35 in action. In this brace, Lyon are coming off in the status of the favourite, and besides, these settings can hardly be argued if to take into account that "The Kids" get a lofty tourney motivation for this one.

Match status: FRANCE: Ligue 1 - Round 35
Kick-off: Friday 28 Apr 2017, 07:45pm GMT
Venue: "Stade Jean-Bouin" in Angers, France

Angers: Team News

The 34 rounds in French Ligue 1 are in the past already, and 39 points gained by Angers are placing them at 14th position, moving 7 points ahead of the kick-off zone, that include Bastia at the bottom, Nancy and Dijon crawling up with some chance to stay in the top tier. There are four matchdays left until the championship comes to the end; although there's no certainty that "Les Scoistes" are free of the risks of leaving the league yet, but these are minimal.

Within the France Ligue 1 competition, Angers have played out 17 games where they have won 7 of those, drawn on 5 occasions, as well as the same number of defeats so far - such stats looks desirable, however, Stephane Moulin's men are less skilled as their current opposite side, indeed.

Olympique Lyon: Team News

In Lyon's turn, at the moment the priority tournament is the Europa League, where "The Lions" have reached the semi-finals so far, but also in the League of 1 future guests do not give up playing with dignity because there is competition for the zone of the Euro Cups in the face of Bordeaux, Marseille and Saint Etienne, who also would not mind giving it a try for Europe next season. In the French championship, Lyon played a record 16 matches on the road this season, which achieved six wins with three draws and seven defeats.

Possible starting lineups of the teams:

Angers: Alexandre Letellier - Vincent Manceau, Mateo Pavlovic, Ismael Traore, Abdoulaye Bamba - Thomas Mangani, Baptiste Santamaria, Cheikh Ndoye - Karl Toko Ekambi, Famara Diedhiou, Nicolas Pepe (4-3-3 formation)

Olympique Lyon: Anthony Lopes - Christophe Jallet, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Mouctar Diakhaby, Maciej Rybus - Maxime Gonalons, Lucas Tousart - Memphis Depay, Corentin Tolisso, Houssem Aouar - Maxwel Cornet (4-2-3-1 formation)

Missing players of Angers and Olympique Lyon:

Angers: Billy Ketkeophomphone, Yoann Andreu, Jamel Saihi.

Olympique Lyon: Alexandre Lacazette, Nabil Fekir, Emanuel Mammana.

Angers - Olympique Lyon Head-to-Head Stats:

21.12.16 L1 Lyon 2-0 Angers
06.02.16 L1 Angers 0-3 Lyon
05.12.15 L1 Lyon 0-2 Angers

Interesting facts and streaks:

Angers have lost their last 4 matches (Ligue 1).
There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 5 of Lyon's last 6 games (Ligue 1).

Conclusion and Match Preview:

Olympique Lyon are travelling to Angers for a victory and nothing else. "The Weavers" can hardly be referred to visiting teams as the ace of their play, even though their situation in the standings forces the away side to scoop the whole set of points so that Bruno Genesio's team could get back into the four. Also, let's not forget Lyon's last round 1-2 loss to Monaco on their turf at "Parc Olympique Lyonnais", which hints they should be thirsty for getting satisfaction five days later they felt the bitter taste of that defeat.