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Peter Green - August 18, 2023
Lorient vs Nice Predictions and Free Tips from our expert tipsters when the teams go head-to-head in the French Ligue 1 on Sunday, 20 August 2023.
Nice and Lorient finished at alternative positions last Ligue 1 season. They both finished at 9th and 10th in the standings respectively. These two teams had an average form throughout that season.
Going on, Lorient faced PSG in their opening fixture while Nice locked horns with Lille. Both teams recorded a 1-1 draw in their opening fixtures and will enter this match following a winless start.
Nice won two of the last three head to head clashes against Lorient. They were unbeaten in both their meetings against Lorient last season.
The past four overall wins was evenly split at this stadium, with two each for both. Three of their last four meetings at this stadium had goals under 2.5 ft.
Lorient have a decent form at home. The team won three and lost two of their last five home matches. Meanwhile, Nice won two and lost three of their past five road trips across all competitions.
However, Nice have an upper hand in the head to head tradition. In that case, we are inclined to back Nice to win here.
We don’t expect a goal-fest as neither of these two sides have been successful in scoring goals over the rate of 2 offensively. Moreover, four of the last six road trips of Nice were low-scoring. In that case, we don’t expect goals over 2.5 here.
Since we expect a low-scoring match and a win for Nice, goals are unlikely to land from both ends. On top of that two of the last four clashes between these two had one-sided ending.
Nice will head into this fixture following an average on the road form. But their h2h tradition against Lorient should boost them with spirits here.
We expect a win for Nice on Sunday. While placing it as the main betting tip at 2.25 odds, we like to back the under 2.5 goals bet at 1.91 odds unlike their h2h tradition which often has high-scoring matches.
