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Ligue 1 Predictions, Round 10

GFFN editor-in-chief  Luke Entwistle, and sub-editors Raphaël Jucobin and Bastien Cheval face off in our Ligue 1 predictions competition. This season, GFFN will also be hosting guests. Earlier this season, The Athletic’s Alex Barker participated and became the first name on our guest leaderboard, and he has since been joined by Julien Laurens. It’s three points for a correct score, two points for a correct score difference, and one point for a correct result. Who will come out on top at the end of the season?

SCORES

Raphaël: 62

Luke: 58

Bastien: 69

Guest leaderboard:

Alex Barker: 7

Julien Laurens: 7

Game of the week: OGC Nice v Lille OSC, Wednesday 18:00 (UK)

Nice played well for 45 minutes, and it was enough to do the job against Rennes. It was another dispiriting midweek for Franck Haise’s side, who, by losing against Celta Vigo, are now on a run of 15 games without a win in Europe. It means that Nice could ditch their Europa League campaign and focus on Ligue 1, as they did last season. It is a scenario brought about by ineptitude, granted, and poor performances, but also by injuries and absences; the same story from last season, once again, is repeating itself. Dante and Hicham Boudaoui missed out in midweek. The former continues to manage his load, and judging by recent weeks, he is only capable of playing one in every three or four games. The latter was ill and is also a doubt to face Lille, having missed both the game against Celta Vigo and the narrow 2-1 win over Rennes at the weekend.

Le Gym’s main man is currently Sofiane Diop, who was on the scoresheet again against Rennes and now has five league goals this season. Nice will be hoping that he continues his goalscoring form because the goals certainly aren’t coming from elsewhere. Terem Moffi remains sidelined, and Kevin Carlos does not look to be the solution to the club’s striker issue. His recruitment looks more questionable by the day. They had enough to swat aside a struggling Rennes, but Lille will be a trickier opponent. Bruno Genesio’s side are something of a flat-track bully. Granted, they have the joint-best attacking record in the division (22 goals), but 13 of those have come against Lorient and Metz, the two favourites for relegation. Doing it against bigger sides and more specifically, doing it against big sides and away from home, is the task that Lille face. This game should be close, and it may be decided by just a single goal.

Raphael’s Ligue 1 predictions

Luke’s predictions:

Bastien’s predictions

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