Toulouse vs Olympique Lyon Prediction: Toulouse want to prove their quality.

Toulouse and Olympique Lyon play against each other in the 26th round of the French Ligue 1. It will be a game to decide who stays in 10th spot after this game if either side can get a win. At the moment Olympique Lyon are 10th with 31 points, while Toulouse are 11th with 29 points. 

Toulouse

Toulouse are coming off a disappointing result from their last game against Le Havre. They had been on a good run of 4 games without a defeat prior to the game against Le Havre, which ended in a 1-0 defeat. Toulouse had defeated bigger clubs like OGC Nice, AS Monaco and LOSC Lille in the last few weeks, so a defeat to Le Havre was a huge blow for the team.

Toulouse and Le Havre played a tight game until the 60th minute when Le Havre took the lead and Toulouse failed to respond until the end of the game. Some critics would argue that the result was justified following the poor performance of the Toulouse team in the game. Toulouse failed to register a single shot on target nor did they create any big chance throughout the entire game. 

Toulouse manager Carles Martinez will hope this is a temporary setback and that his boys can get back to winning ways in the coming game. He's not expected to make any major change to the 3-4-2-1 formation in the coming game against Olympique Lyon.

Olympique Lyon

Olympique Lyon recovered brilliantly from the humiliating defeat against RC Lens about 2 weeks ago. They got back from the 3-0 defeat to beat Lorient 2-0 last weekend.

Olympique Lyon were brilliant in that game against Lorient. It was tough to lose Alexandre Lacazette to injury a few weeks ago and there was a huge doubt on how he'll be replaced. However in the last game, Mama Baldé and Nicolas Tagliafico were able to score to help Lyon get all 3 points. According to the stats, Lyon had 52% possession, 6 shots on target, 7 corner kicks and they also created 3 big chances.

Lyon coach Pierre Sage was pleased by the performance from the boys in the game against Lorient. He deployed the 4-3-3 flat formation in that game and he is most likely going to retain that shape against Toulouse.

Head to Head

According to the h2h, the last 20 matches ended with 14 wins for Olympique Lyon and 2 wins for Toulouse and 4 games ended in a draw.

Analysis and Predictions

The morale of the Toulouse team will be a huge decider ahead of this game. They have shown in the last few weeks that they are a strong team and strong teams respond after a defeat. Olympique Lyon will not find it easy as they did against Lorient because Toulouse will be eager to get back to winning ways.

According to the h2h, Lyon have not lost the last 15 games against Toulouse and Toulouse have failed to keep a clean sheet in the last 16 meetings. 7 of the last 8 meetings ended with more than 2.5 goals and both teams scored in 6 of the last 8 meetings. 

Lyon also scored first in the last 5 meetings and they won the first half in 4 of the last 5 meetings. There's also been less than 4.5 cards in 5 of the last 7 meetings, and less than 10.5 corners in 6 of the last 7.

• (3-Way Total) Under 10 Corners at 1.84 Odds
• (3-Way Total) Under 10 Corners at 1.84 Odds
• Under 2.5 Total Goals at 1.85 Odds