Lille OSC vs AS Monaco Preview 23/10/2022

Lille OSC vs AS Monaco – 23/10/2022

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Sixth and seventh in Ligue 1 will meet this weekend in arguably the largest recreation of the season for Lille and Monaco because the 2020/21 champions of France play hosts to the latter on the Stade Pierre Mauroy with each side eyeing up a spot within the European locations earlier than the break for the World Cup.

It’s been an up and down month throughout October for Monaco as they’ve managed to register some respectable wins, whereas additionally wanting very shaky on the again too.

The membership managed to get hammered by Turkish facet Trabzonspor in Europe two weeks again 4-0, and this got here only one week after beating them 3-1at the Louis II Stadium.

In between these video games within the Europa League, the French giants defeated Montpellier 2-0 in Ligue 1, however Monaco additionally drew 1-1 with Clermont Foot final weekend on dwelling soil.

Nevertheless, the membership are nonetheless sitting forward of their opposition right here forward of the sport, however the 2017/18 champions of France are behind fourth-placed Marseille by two factors and fifth-placed Rennes on simply objectives distinction.

On the identical time, with 20 objectives scored, and solely 14, Monaco sit with the identical defensive file as second-placed Lorient.

Lille, alternatively, have had a a lot smoother October as they eased previous Strasbourg 3-0 final weekend not lengthy after defeating third-placed Lens 1-0 – this stays Lens’ solely loss within the league to date.

Nevertheless, if Lille are to be thought-about a risk to the Champions League locations, a victory right here in opposition to Monaco is a should, regardless of wanting so good in October.

If that is to occur, the wonderful type of their star striker, Jonathan David, should keep on.

The Canadian has now scored 9 instances in Ligue 1 already this season to maneuver stage with Neymar on the high of the goalscoring chart in France, placing him one objective above Kylian Mbappe within the course of and 4 forward of Lionel Messi.

Lille have nonetheless managed to let in 18 objectives to date this season, which is alarming given how this is only one objective lower than Fifteenth-placed Reims simply outdoors of the relegation spots.

What’s extra, though the type of David up high is extraordinarily spectacular, with 21 objectives scored in complete for Lille, he has now scored nearly half of the objectives they’ve netted in complete within the league.

Forebet predicts a win for Monaco and for the sport to see beneath 2.5 objectives.