Lille vs Troyes - prediction, team news, lineups

LOSC Lille invited Troyes to the Stade Pierre-Mauroy connected Sunday day for circular 4 of the 2026-27 Ligue 1 campaign.

In their erstwhile outing, Les Dogues claimed a 1-0 triumph distant to Toulouse, portion ESTAC fell to a dense 6-2 decision against RC Strasbourg astatine the Stade Oceane.

Match preview

Although past season’s 3rd spot decorativeness was their champion effect since winning the Ligue 1 rubric 5 years ago, picking up 61 points from their 34 matches, Lille volition beryllium looking to amended adjacent further successful 2026-27 having enjoyed a affirmative commencement to the campaign.

Following their 2-0 triumph distant to Angers connected the opening weekend, Davide Ancelotti’s men conceded doubly precocious connected to agonisingly gully against Paris Saint-Germain connected location soil, but having bounced backmost good by winning astatine Toulouse past Thursday, Les Dogues are 1 of lone 5 Ligue 1 teams that are yet to lose.

Earning 7 points truthful far, a tally lone bettered by existent part leaders AS Monaco, Lille presently beryllium 4th successful the league table and with a favourable tally of upcoming fixtures, facing 2 of the bottommost 4 wrong the adjacent month, they volition surely beryllium wanting to physique connected their promising start.

However, if Les Dogues are to bash so, they volition decidedly person to amended upon their unconvincing location record, having failed to triumph immoderate of their erstwhile 4 league matches astatine the Stade Pierre-Mauroy and falling to decision determination against Real Betis successful their opening UEFA Champions League clash connected Tuesday evening.

Unbeaten successful their latest 3 encounters with Troyes, including a 5-1 triumph erstwhile they past hosted ESTAC, Ancelotti’s broadside are undoubtedly the favourites to assertion triumph connected Sunday though and volition beryllium anxious to bash truthful with immoderate much forgiving fixtures connected the horizon.

Having won promotion arsenic champions of Ligue 2 past season, finishing 5 points amended disconnected than runners up Le Mans, Troyes volition beryllium contented with their commencement to beingness successful the apical formation having spent the erstwhile 3 years successful the 2nd tier.

After picking up a respectable constituent astatine location to Paris FC successful their archetypal fixture, ESTAC posted an awesome maiden triumph of the run arsenic they won 2-1 distant to FC Lorient, though they were rapidly brought backmost down to world arsenic they suffered a humbling 6-2 decision against Strasbourg astatine the Stade de l’Aube connected Sunday afternoon.

As a effect of their existent 4 constituent total, Stephane Dumont’s men beryllium conscionable wrong the apical fractional of the league array and with each of their 8 matches pursuing this weekend’s outing against sides beneath them, Troyes volition beryllium optimistic that they tin ascent the part alternatively of slipping further down.

With 7 goals conceded implicit their 3 fixtures truthful far, an magnitude that tin lone beryllium toppled by Auxerre’s 11, ESTAC’s main precedence volition apt beryllium to rediscover their antiaircraft solidity having surrendered conscionable 1 onslaught erstwhile winning those 4 points successful the archetypal 2 games.

Troyes volition besides beryllium keen to rectify their dismal grounds against Lille connected Sunday, having not won immoderate of their erstwhile 3 meetings with Les Dogues and failing to bushed them distant from location successful implicit a decade, with Jimmy Cabot’s second-half brace giving ESTAC each 3 points successful their latest triumph astatine the Stade Pierre-Mauroy successful January 2016.

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Team News

Having received a consecutive reddish paper aft elbowing an hostile against Real Betis successful the week, Ethan Mbappe volition miss astatine slightest 3 European matches for Lille, though helium is capable to diagnostic successful Ligue 1.

Moroccan guardant Hamza Igamane is Les Dogues lone existent wounded woe, with the 23-year-old inactive presently sidelined with an ACL teardrop that helium suffered successful the Africa Cup of Nations earlier this year.

Following a period retired owed to a musculus injury, French defender Tanguy Nianzou returned to the seat for Tuesday’s Champions League clash and is truthful disposable for enactment again.

With 3 extremity contributions successful arsenic galore league games to commencement the season, seasoned striker Olivier Giroud is inactive a important portion of the Lille broadside astatine 39-years-old and volition apt beryllium the host’s biggest menace erstwhile again connected Sunday.

On the different hand, Troyes are dampened by respective injuries wrong the side, including antiaircraft duo Ismael Boura and Paolo Gozzi who are some doubts for the play with hep and adductor issues respectively.

French defender Yvann Titi is simply a definite miss having picked up a terrible musculus wounded successful the league opener, portion it remains to beryllium seen whether 27-year-old midfielder Merwan Ifnaoui is acceptable aft leaving the tract aboriginal against Strasbourg with an undisclosed problem.

Getting his ESTAC relationship up and moving with a extremity connected his debut against Les Bleu et Blancs past Sunday, 28-year-old striker Jeremy Le Douaron volition beryllium hoping to proceed his promising commencement to beingness successful Troyes with different onslaught erstwhile helium apt leads the enactment for the visitors this weekend.

Lille imaginable starting lineup:

Ozer; Santos, Ngoy, Alexsandro, Perraud; Andre, Mukau; Mbappe, Haraldsson, Bakwa; Giroud

Troyes imaginable starting lineup:

Beach; Maronnier, Monfray, Diaz Jr, Ouzenadji; Mille, Diop; Nkada, Karim, Picard; Le Douaron

We say: Lille 3-1 Troyes

Although they suffered a thumping nonaccomplishment past weekend, Troyes volition beryllium softly assured astir their chances this clip astir with their hosts struggling arsenic of precocious astatine the Stade Pierre-Mauroy.

Despite this, we are backing Lille to travel distant with triumph connected Sunday afternoon, ending their barren tally connected location ungraded and putting the unit connected league leaders Monaco, who look a hard travel distant to Strasbourg the time prior.

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