Lille vs Rennes
French Ligue 1
Date: Wednesday, 21st December 2016
Kick off at 19:50 UK Time
Venue: Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille.
Lille vs Rennes: Preview
Lille vs Rennes match is going to be held on 21st December at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. It’s an important football clash between two French football clubs where both teams will try to give their best efforts to win this match of French Ligue 1 2016-17. Lille suffered a 2-0 away defeat against Marseille and Rennes suffered a 1-2 home defeat against Bastia in their previous league matches.
At the moment, performance of Lille is average and they have secured 6 wins, 2 draws and 10 defeats along with 13th position in Ligue 1 2016/17. In other side Rennes has performed average with 8 wins, 3 draws and 7 defeats along with 7th position in the Ligue 1 table. Lille will start the match as favorite against Rennes in this crucial fixture of Ligue 1 at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard.
Lille vs Rennes: Head to Head Stats
You have to go back over 20 years and 13 games since Rennes recorded a victory away to Lille. But there have been quite a few draws in between, even the last two matches in this exact fixture finished with draws. Three of the last 5 fixtures have ended 1-1. Based on the last 10 fixtures there is a 90% success rate of seeing fewer than 3 goals.
Lille vs Rennes: Prediction
We have zero confidence in a Rennes win, not only does history tell us this but they have a poor record away from home. However Lille on the handicap seems tempting they are big odds on to do so. We shouldn’t expect many goals in this fixture.
Lille vs Rennes: Betting Tips
Under 2.5 full-time goals at 13/8 (2.62)
Over 0.5 goals in first half at 6/11 (1.55)
Lille to win – Draw no bet at 1/2 (1.50).
