Monaco vs Lille - prediction, team news, lineups

Monaco tin adjacent the spread betwixt themselves and Lille for a Champions League spot erstwhile the 2 sides conscionable up successful Ligue 1 enactment astatine Stade Louis II connected Sunday.

Thanks to a 2-1 triumph implicit Metz and immoderate help, Les Monegasques moved up to sixth past week, 4 points beneath Lille, who are 4th pursuing a 1-1 gully astatine location to Le Havre.

Match preview

A spot successful Europe is backmost successful their hands for now, but Monaco apt cannot spend to driblet galore much points betwixt present and the remainder of the season.

With 2 matches to go, Sebastien Pocognoli’s men are a constituent supra Marseille, who are extracurricular the European positions, portion lone 4 points presently abstracted the Principality nine from a spot successful adjacent season’s Champions League qualifying round.

Heading into their last location crippled of 2025-26, this squad are connected a six-match unbeaten tally astatine Stade Louis II successful this competition.

If they tin triumph their past 2 Ligue 1 affairs this season, they would decorativeness with astatine slightest 60 points for a sixth successive campaign.

They person won their past 3 home location encounters successful the Principality successful May, scoring a combined 10 times implicit that stretch, portion conceding lone once.

The Principality nine person points successful six consecutive location games versus Lille, posting a cleanable expanse connected those erstwhile 3 occasions.

As we deed the second stages of the Ligue 1 campaign, Lille are cutting it awfully adjacent successful their quest to get backmost into the Champions League.

Bruno Genesio’s broadside person failed to triumph 2 of their erstwhile 3 top-flight affairs, portion dropping 4 points erstwhile scoring archetypal this year.

Like Monaco, their borderline for mistake is thin, arsenic lone 2 points presently abstracted them from Lyon for an automatic spot successful the League Phase of the Champions League, and they are conscionable 2 points supra Rennes for a spot successful the qualifiers of that tournament.

Away from home, Lille person been connected rather a roll, winning 5 successful a enactment successful Ligue 1, without a extremity conceded connected those erstwhile 2 occasions.

With a triumph connected Sunday, this squad volition scope treble digits for distant triumphs successful a azygous top-flight play for the archetypal clip since winning the league successful 2020-21.

Les Nordistes person won their past 2 meetings with Monaco successful this competition, but person not beaten them successful Ligue 1 astatine Stade Louis II since 2009 (4-0).

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Team News

Knee injuries are expected to forestall Mohammed Salisu, Takumi Minamino and Kassoum Ouattara from featuring for Monaco, Vanderson has a thigh strain, portion Paris Brunner is dealing with a sore hamstring.

Expect Stanis Idumbo to miss this contention with a enarthrosis problem, portion Caio Henrique volition beryllium pushing to commencement aft returning from his sore hamstring past week.

Folarin Balogun was backmost connected the scoresheet past week arsenic helium and Ansu Fati netted second-half strikes successful their come-from-behind victory.

An elbow contented volition surely support Marc-Aurele Caillard connected the Lille sidelines, Marius Broholm has a sore leg, portion Nabil Bentaleb is questionable owed to an infection.

Because of a thigh injury, Noah Edjouma volition apt beryllium retired connected Sunday, portion Hamza Igamane and Ousmane Toure are unavailable with cruciate ligament tears.

Hakon Arnar Haraldsson gave them a little pb conscionable beyond the half-hour people past Sunday, arsenic the Iceland midfielder drew adjacent with Matias Fernandez-Pardo for archetypal connected the squad with his eighth league goal.

Monaco imaginable starting lineup:

Hradecky; Kehrer, Zakaria, Mawissa; Teze, Camara, Pogba, Henrique; Akliouche, Balogun, Golovin

Lille imaginable starting lineup:

Ozer; Meunier, Ngoy, Mandi, Perraud; Andre, Bouaddi; Mukau, Haraldsson, Correia; Fernandez-Pardo

We say: Monaco 2-1 Lille

These are 2 teams with plentifulness of firepower and a batch to play for, but ultimately, we judge the attacking signifier of Balogun volition propel the location broadside to a constrictive triumph.

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