Lille vs Galatasaray - prediction, team news, lineups

Lille invited Galatasaray to the Decathlon Arena - Stade Pierre-Mauroy connected Wednesday evening for a UEFA Champions League league-phase brushwood betwixt 2 sides hopeless to assertion their archetypal European points of the campaign.

Both teams person endured hard starts successful Europe contempt showing greater consistency successful their home competitions, with the hosts suffering a 3-0 decision distant to Arsenal past clip out, portion Cimbom were beaten 4-1 astatine location by Barcelona.

Match preview

Lille instrumentality to Champions League enactment aft their disappointing decision astatine Arsenal, wherever 3 second-half goals condemned Davide Ancelotti's broadside to different European setback.

The French nine competed reasonably good earlier the interval but struggled to incorporate Arsenal aft the hosts accrued the tempo, with Jurrien Timber, Eberechi Eze and Bukayo Saka uncovering the nett successful the 2nd half.

That effect followed a 3-2 location decision to Real Betis successful Lille's opening league-phase fixture, leaving them without a constituent aft 2 matches, portion their antiaircraft shortcomings person proved peculiarly costly, with 5 goals conceded crossed those encounters.

However, Les Dogues’ home performances person offered considerably much encouragement, drafting 1-1 with Brest successful their astir caller league outing, recovering from an aboriginal shortage done an Olivier Giroud punishment successful the 2nd half.

Although the gully prevented them from securing different victory, Lille extended their unbeaten location tally successful Ligue 1 this play to 4 matches, signaling 2 wins and 2 draws, which represents a opposition to their UCL location form, having mislaid their past 3 location matches successful the competition.

Lille volition besides beryllium looking to sphere their unbeaten grounds against Turkish opposition, having won doubly and drawn 4 times successful six erstwhile meetings with clubs from the country, with some victories coming successful 3 location matches, alongside 1 draw, though Wednesday's brushwood volition beryllium their archetypal gathering with Galatasaray.

Galatasaray, meanwhile, get successful France aft securing a 1-0 triumph distant to Genclerbirligi successful the Super Lig, arsenic Deniz Gul scored the decisive extremity successful the 88th minute, ensuring the Istanbul broadside remained apical of the standings with 19 points.

Okan Buruk's broadside person been little convincing successful Europe, however, losing 3-1 distant to Sporting successful their opening fixture earlier suffering a 4-1 location decision against Barcelona.

Against the Spanish champions, Galatasaray took the pb done Aleksey Batrakov but could not support their advantage, conceding 4 times successful a 22-minute spell arsenic Barcelona took power and near the Turkish champions inactive searching for their archetypal points of the league phase.

History offers small encouragement up of their travel to France wherever Galatasaray person won lone erstwhile successful their erstwhile 11 distant matches against French absorption – winless successful their past six distant matches successful France, drafting doubly and losing 4 times, portion their wide grounds against French clubs crossed their past 11 encounters stands astatine 2 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats. 

Furthermore, the visitors person mislaid their past 5 Champions League distant matches and 8 of their past nine, with conscionable 1 triumph successful that sequence, a mediocre grounds connected the roadworthy that raises the imaginable of different hard evening arsenic they effort to debar opening a Champions League run with 3 consecutive defeats for the archetypal clip since 1997-98.

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Team News

Lille volition beryllium without Tiago Santos, who is recovering from a superior genu injury, portion Ethan Mbappe is suspended.

Ayase Ueda is besides a uncertainty aft picking up a ft problem, and goalkeeper Berke Ozer has been listed arsenic doubtful, leaving Orlando Gill with an accidental to marque his European debut aft making his nine debut against Brest.

Lille person besides struggled defensively successful the Champions League, having gone 10 matches without keeping a cleanable sheet, Gill volition truthful beryllium hoping to assistance the hosts code that weakness if helium is selected.

Galatasaray are expected to beryllium without Rafael Leao, who has reportedly been struggling with a groin occupation pursuing the play lucifer against Genclerbirligi, and his lack would deprive him of the accidental to instrumentality to Lille, wherever helium scored 8 goals successful 26 appearances during the 2018-19 campaign.

Wilfried Singo remains a uncertainty with a thigh injury, leaving Buruk with a imaginable determination to marque successful defence.

Victor Osimhen volition beryllium hoping to marque the quality connected his instrumentality to his erstwhile club, wherever helium scored 18 goals successful 38 appearances during the 2019-20 season.

Lille imaginable starting lineup:

Gill; Goffi, Ngoy, Alexsandro, Perraud; Andre, Bentaleb; Bakwa, Mukau, Haraldsson; Giroud

Galatasaray imaginable starting lineup:

Cakir; Sallai, Sanchez, Bardakci, Elmali; Torreira, Lemina; Akgun, Batrakov, Yilmaz; Osimhen

We say: Lille 2-1 Galatasaray

Lille's European results person been disappointing, but their home location signifier suggests they stay a hard hostile astatine the Stade Pierre-Mauroy.

Galatasaray person capable attacking prime to score, peculiarly if Osimhen receives bully service, but their mediocre distant grounds successful Europe remains a concern. Lille should beryllium capable to capitalise connected location vantage and the visitors' antiaircraft uncertainty to unafraid a constrictive triumph and cod their archetypal points of the league phase.

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