Lille vs Brest - prediction, team news, lineups

Lille volition enactment their unbeaten grounds astatine location connected the enactment Saturday arsenic they instrumentality to Stade Pierre-Mauroy to look Brest connected matchday 7 of the Ligue 1 campaign.

Despite a 1-0 triumph implicit Le Havre past week, Les Dogues caput into this play a constituent down Monaco for first, portion Stade Brestois moved up to seventh aft a comfy 5-1 location triumph against Angers.

Match preview

After different unsmooth European outing this week, Lille volition anticipation to regain immoderate assurance this weekend, coming disconnected a 3-0 decision to Arsenal successful Champions League enactment connected Tuesday.

Davide Ancelotti’s men person mislaid 2 of their past 3 competitory games, conceding 5 goals successful full implicit that stretch.

While they person fixed up six goals successful conscionable 2 European outings this season, Lille person allowed the joint-fewest goals (four) successful Ligue 1 aft six matchdays.

A triumph this play would widen their home winning tally astatine Stade Pierre-Mauroy to 3 matches, their longest specified streak successful apical formation this year, and conscionable 1 abbreviated of their longest location winning tally successful this contention past season.

Overall, they are the joint-best broadside successful the league for goals conceded per lucifer (0.7), portion scoring successful each competitory location crippled truthful far.

Les Nordistes person ne'er mislaid a location lucifer against Brest this century, winning 3 of those past 4 meetings which took spot astatine Stade Pierre-Mauroy.

The Stade Brestois onslaught fired connected each cylinders past week, going up aboriginal and seldom letting up passim the archetypal 45 minutes.

While this squad person netted aggregate goals successful 4 of their six league matches truthful far, past weekend’s show was the archetypal clip we saw this squad find that slayer instinct and permission nary doubt.

Julien Lachuer volition anticipation for a repetition show connected Saturday arsenic Brest purpose to debar suffering successive Ligue 1 distant defeats.

While Brest caput into this lucifer with the second-highest expected goals ratio successful the French apical formation (13.6), they person conceded 9 times successful this competition, the second-most among teams presently successful the apical fractional of the table.

They person drawn archetypal humor successful each 3 of their distant outings domestically this play but person already dropped 5 points erstwhile doing so.

Les Pirates volition question their archetypal Ligue 1 triumph astatine Lille since 1989 (2-1), though they earned a constituent successful their 2 meetings against them past season.

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Team News

This weekend, Lille could beryllium missing Ethan Mbappe Lottin with an ankle strain, portion Tiago Santos is questionable owed to an wounded and Hamza Igamane is recovering from a cruciate ligament tear.

Dilane Bakwa notched his 2nd of the run connected matchday six, with Berke Ozer collecting his 3rd cleanable expanse of the competition, the joint-most among Ligue 1 goalkeepers.

On the Brest side, Giovani Versini has a sore knee, Raphael Le Guen is retired with a breached fibula, Brendan Chardonnet has a calf strain and Romain Cagnon is questionable due to the fact that of a knock.

Ludovic Ajorque, Lucas Tousart, Kenny Lala, Mama Balde and Pathe Mboup each recovered the backmost of the nett successful an emphatic triumph implicit Angers.

Lille imaginable starting lineup:

Ozer; Srdanovic, Nianzou, Alexsandro, Verdonk; Bentaleb, Andre; Mukau; Haraldsson, Bakwa; Giroud

Brest imaginable starting lineup:

Selvik; Lala, Tousart, Lloris, Locko; Chotard, Magnetti; Balde, Doumbia, Mboup; Ajorque

We say: Lille 2-0 Brest

Despite a unsmooth showing successful midweek against Arsenal, Lille ever look to travel backmost beardown aft a decision and should beryllium astatine easiness returning to Stade Pierre-Mauroy, wherever they person looked impenetrable defensively passim this season.

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