Olympique Lyon vs Strasbourg Prediction: Lyon are not giving up on the Conference League

It's been quite an eventful season for Olympique Lyon and they head into the final game of the season with their heads held high. Lyon had a very poor start to the season and were rock bottom at some point but currently in game 33, they are in 7th place, which is far from where they want to be, but they can look back at their efforts in the last couple of months and feel proud. Ahead of them is a tough game against Strasbourg, a win here could mean they get to qualify for Conference League next season, if RC Lens fail to win their own game. And a defeat would mean they drop down into 8th if Olympique Marseille win. And for Strasbourg they can only hope to climb into 12th place or higher if they win this game, but a defeat really doesn't affect their current position.

Olympique Lyon will surely be getting a heroes welcome back as they step onto the Groupama Stadium for the final time this season. Irrespective of the team's current position, the fans had witnessed a dramatic turnaround to their bad fortunes this season. Olympique Lyon will hope to grab a win here and book their ticket to the Conference League, but that bit depends on RC Lens. Accross 33 games, Lyon had 15 wins, 5 draws and 13 defeats. That is a total of 50 points and a goal difference of -7 goals. Alexandre Lacazette is top scorer for Lyon this season with 17 goals while Rayan Cherki has the most assists (6) for the club. And defensively, Lyon kept 10 clean sheets in the Ligue 1 this season. 

Olympique Lyon had to fight to keep their hopes alive in their last game against Clermont Foot. After a goalless first half, Orel Mangala scored the crucial goal to put Lyon in front and they held onto the lead until the end. According to stats, Lyon had 49% possession, 2 shots on target and 2 corners.

Strasbourg are open to finish in a higher position than their current position (13) on the table. And the only way to achieve that is to win while Montpellier and/or Stade Reims fail to win their games. However, a defeat for Strasbourg would make no serious impact as their position has already been decided. In all 33 games they played this season, Strasbourg had 10 wins, 9 draws and 14 defeats. And they collected a total of 39 points and their goal difference is currently -11. Emmanuel Emegha is current top scorer for Strasbourg with 8 goals while Dilane Bakwa registered 6 assists to lead the assists’ charts. 

Strasbourg ended their poor run last weekend by beating Metz FC 2-1 at home. Metz FC were first to draw blood in the 54’ minute and in the 89’ minute, Emmanuel Emegha scored the equalizer. And 2 minutes later, Andrey Santos scored the winning goal for Strasbourg. According to stats, Strasbourg had 71% possession, 2 shots on target and 3 corner kicks.

According to the h2h, in the last 20 meetings between Strasbourg and Olympique Lyon, Lyon won 13 matches while Strasbourg won 4 matches and 3 matches ended in a draw.

Olympique Lyon are pretty serious about making it to Europe and getting all 3 points here would help their case. Although they still need RC Lens to lose their game. But there's no way Lyon is throwing away such a huge game. 

Match Facts:- 6 of the last 8 meetings ended with more than 2.5 goals and both teams scored in 5 of the last 6 meetings. Strasbourg scored first in 4 of the last 5 meetings and in 5 of the last 6 meetings, there were less than 4.5 cards. There were also less than 10.5 corners in 8 of the last 10 meetings.

• Olympique Lyon to Win and Over 1.5 Goals at 1.63 Odds
• 2-3 Multigoals at 2.26 Odds
• Olympique Lyon to Win 2-0 at 9.00 Odds