Match Preview

While the respective league positions of the teams featured in today’s Nantes vs Lille preview suggest that a comfortable home win should be on the cards, when you delve a little deeper in the statistics, the picture doesn’t look quite so clear. The home team are flying high in 5^th spot in Ligue 1, though they quite often run into a brick wall when they take on LOSC.

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Claudio Ranieri has enjoyed a largely successful first campaign at La Beaujoire-Louis Fonteneau, though his team have lost four of their last five home games ahead of this week’s Nantes vs Lille betting tips. Their 3-0 win at Guingamp at the weekend was their first in five fixtures overall and really the general competitiveness of the division has helped Nantes maintain their lofty position more than anything else. Les Canaris have scored the second fewest goals at home in the league this season behind Caen.

Lille secured a last-gasp victory over Strasbourg in their last game to end a run of three straight defeats. Les Dogues have won three and lost three of their last six games overall and the hot and cold nature of their displays makes them a difficult outfit to analyse. The threat of relegation is still very real for LOSC this season, though a win next week could catapult them from 17^th to 11^th position. Read on to see our French football forecast for this exciting fixture.

Nantes vs Lille Prediction and Betting Advice

We open today’s selection Nantes vs Lille bets by forecasting an away win at the La Beaujoire-Louis Fonteneau next week. Les Canaris are operating at the opposite end of the table to their visitors and usually, that would make them heavy favourites to win. However, Les Dogues are something of a bogey side for the club from Pays de la Loire.

LOSC have actually beaten their opponents in 100% of their last three meetings with them. In fact, Nantes haven’t even scored a goal against Lille in any of their last five clashes with them. Staggeringly, Les Canarais have only beaten their rivals once since 2004, that’s a run of twenty once games with just once victory.

Christophe Galtier’s side haven’t lost on any of their last nine trips to La Beaujoire-Louis Fonteneau and Galtier will surely use that terrific set of results to motivate his players next weekend. Furthermore, Ranieiri watched his team lose four of their most recent five matches on home turf. We picked out Betsson to provide the Ligue 1 football odds for today’s first pick. The value they offer is outstanding and you won’t find better odds at any of their competitors.

Neither team involved in today’s Nantes vs Lille predictions have much in the way of goal scoring power or much efficiency in the final third. Only Caen have scored fewer goals at home in Ligue 1 than Les Canaris, who have scored a paltry nine times in eleven games at La Beaujoire-Louis Fonteneau in 2017/18.

As positive a season as they are having in general, Claudio Ranieri’s side are still one of the least exciting teams to watch in France’s top division. There has been a total of just forty-three goals scored across their twenty-three league fixtures, which works out at an average of only 1.8 goals per game. The goal average when playing at their own stadium is worse again, standing at 1.4 per ninety minutes.

LOSC have registered just eight goals in their eleven away league matches since August, which breaks down to a miserly 0.7 per contest. Whichever way you look at it, the statistics tell us the same thing. Neither of our analysed clubs can be backed to score with any regularity, so checkout out the under 2.5 goal markets looks the way to go. Our research shows that EnergyBet’s odds in that market are the most lucrative available, so we recommend betting with them.