Clermont Foot vs Lille OSC Preview 28/12/2022

Clermont Foot vs Lille OSC – 28/12/2022

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Ligue 1 is about to return this week as tenth and seventh meet within the French prime flight on Wednesday as Lille and Clermont Foot conflict on the Gabriel Montpied Stadium following on from a winless December for Clermont Foot from three video games through the World Cup.

In the course of the break for the World Cup, each side have been comparatively lively. Clermont met with La Liga aspect Valencia on December third in a membership pleasant that noticed the membership go 3-0 down at one stage within the recreation and lose 4-2 in what was a fairly dismal efficiency from the Ligue 1 aspect.

A conflict with one other La Liga aspect got here quickly after with Valladolid, as they misplaced 1-0 earlier than then shedding 1-0 to Sochaux simply this time final week.

It does imply their preparation for this recreation couldn’t have gone a lot worse for Clermont as they didn’t win a single recreation. However, they have been fairly lively and ended up getting numerous gamers again as much as full health within the course of.

Now, up in opposition to Lille, Clermont have an opportunity to rocket themselves additional up the Ligue 1 desk with them already sitting within the prime half after a good finish to issues earlier than the World Cup break.

It has been an ideal season for Pascal Gastien’s aspect, as they’re solely two factors behind eighth-placed Lyon. Nonetheless, the membership are seven factors behind Lille in sixth.

Ought to Gastien’s males get all three factors right here, it could most likely be their largest assertion within the league up to now in 2022/23. As for Lille, they’ve 26 factors up in seventh and so they have been a lot better through the World Cup break than Clermont.

The champions from two seasons in the past prevented defeat in all 5 matches they performed, as Lille have been one of many busiest groups on the continent.

Fairly extremely, Lille defeated the unbeaten Serie A aspect Napoli 4-1, after beating Valladolid 2-0 and Cambuur 2-0. In addition they beat Membership Brugge 1-0 and drew 2-2 with Oostende, which was the one time they didn’t win a recreation from the 5 in December.

This ought to be a routine victory for Lille. The membership are heading into this one in a a lot better place from Clermont and a few of their gamers might be eager to maneuver on from a poor World Cup. Forebet predicts a win for Lille and for the sport to see below 2.5 targets.