Olympique Lyon – Brest, League Cup Prediction

Rudy Garcia was quite disappointed with Lyon’s weak period and tried to change some things in the team. Lyon was also unlucky with injuries to important players like Depay, for example. In the last few matches, however, the kids have been playing far better. In the last match for the French Cup Lyon even won 7-0 vs team from the national league.

Brest are in bad shape and their series of losses away from home is now 5 consecutive games. Brest’s goal this season is to survive and do well in this regard. We don’t think they will have anything to offer Lyon for the cup today, however. Brest were eliminated even by Lorient for the French Cup after extra time and many of the first team players played in this match for 120 minutes, so they are hardly prepared even physically for the game with Lyon.

 Expert view : Considering Lyon’s good performance in recent games and the fact they host, as well as the much more serious team class, we expect them to do well in the match and start strong by scoring in 1^st half. Lyon have scored as many as 5 goals in the 1st half of their last 3 matches, and have scored 12 in all these 3 games. Prediction – Lyon to score in 1st half at 1.53.