Ligue 1
After 10 league games, Lille are 2nd in Ligue 1 with 21 points. The numbers behind Lille are set out in the goals profile, the players behind the goals and the fixtures ahead, followed by the markets worth backing.
Lille
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Lille were founded in 1944, play in Ligue 1 and answer to Les Dogues, La Machine de Guerre and Les Nordistes.
Lille are two points behind Paris Saint Germain at the top of Ligue 1, so the title race is still on.
Also, defensively, Lille keep it tighter than the typical side: 0.7 conceded per game against 1.48.
| Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris Saint Germain |
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| 7 |
| 2 |
| 1 |
| 22 |
| 10 |
| +12 |
| 23 |
| +2 |
| 2 | Lille | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 21 | – |
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| 3 | Paris | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 10 | +7 | 20 | −1 |
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| 4 | Marseille | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 22 | 14 | +8 | 18 | −3 |
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| 5 | Lyon | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 9 | +6 | 17 | −4 |
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| 6 | Nice | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 12 | +3 | 17 | −4 |
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| 7 | Monaco | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 11 | +2 | 16 | −5 |
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League average this season: 1.48 goals scored per team per game, 3.0 per match (all 18 clubs' goals over their games played).
Lille's last five read 2-2-1 (won-drawn-lost), worth 8 points (all competitions).
| Date | Competition | H/A | Opponent | Score | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ligue 1 | A | Rennes (A) | 2–1 | W | |
| UEFA Champions League | A | Bodø/Glimt (A) | 0–0 | D | |
| Ligue 1 | H | Lens (H) | 1–0 | W | |
| Ligue 1 | A | Monaco (A) | 1–1 | D | |
| UEFA Champions League | H | Galatasaray (H) | 2–4 | L | |
| Ligue 1 | H | Stade Brestois 29 (H) | 1–1 | D | |
| UEFA Champions League | A | Arsenal (A) | 0–3 | L | |
| Ligue 1 | H | Le Havre (H) | 1–0 | W | |
| Friendlies Clubs | H | Zulte Waregem (H) | 2–1 | W | |
| Ligue 1 | A | Nice (A) | 1–2 | L |
All competitions. Scores are shown with the team in this guide first.
No home defeat in five for Lille (league matches).
On top of that, venue makes little difference to Lille, who average 2.2 points at home and 2.0 on the road over 10 games (league matches).
| Venue | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts/game |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2.20 |
| Away | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2.00 |
| All | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 2.10 |
League matches only, the same games as the season table.
Lille league games see fewer goals than the typical match here: 30% go over 2.5, against 57% league-wide.
| Measure | Last 20 | Last 5 | Before that (15) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goals scored per game | 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.7 |
| Goals conceded per game | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| Total goals per game | 2.9 | 2.4 | 3.1 |
| Over 2.5 goals | 50% | 40% | 53% |
| Both teams scored | 55% | 60% | 53% |
| Clean sheets | 35% | 40% | 33% |
| Failed to score | 15% | 20% | 13% |
All competitions. "Last 20" is the team's last 20 finished matches; "Last 5" the latest 5; "Before that (15)" the 15 matches before the last 5. The Ligue 1 average this season is 3.0 goals per match. Across 90 finished Ligue 1 matches this season, 57% went over 2.5 goals and both teams scored in 59%. In Lille's 10 Ligue 1 matches, 30% went over 2.5 goals and both teams scored in 50%.
A. Ueda has 3 goals in 6 appearances for Lille, 0.5 a game on average (all competitions).
| Player | Apps | Goals | Assists | G+A |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. Diaoune | 11 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| O. Giroud | 14 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| A. Ueda | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| E. Mbappé | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| D. Bakwa | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Tiago Santos | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| M. Kjaergaard | 12 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
All competitions since 21 August. Ranked by goals, then assists.
The next opponent is struggling: Lyon have lost 3 of their last 5.
| Date | Competition | H/A | Opponent | Pos | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ligue 1 | H | Lyon (H) | 5th | LWLWL | |
| UEFA Champions League | H | Bayern München (H) | – | – | |
| Ligue 1 | A | Le Mans (A) | 15th | LLDLD | |
| Ligue 1 | H | Auxerre (H) | 14th | LWDLL | |
| UEFA Champions League | A | VfB Stuttgart (A) | – | – |
Opponent position and form are from the league table.
| Market | Why |
|---|---|
| Back them at home | Strong points per game at home (home and away table above) |
Rules of thumb from recent results, not predictions. Prices are on the bookmaker sites.
Lille were born out of necessity. Olympique Lillois and SC Fives, two local sides weakened by the war, merged on 23 September 1944, and the newborn side made it to the 1945 Coupe de France final straight away, with a team built mostly from natives of the Nord department. That opening decade is remembered as The War Machine era. Then came the long fall: a first relegation in 1956, professional status abandoned on 23 June 1969, a rebuild from the second division in 1970, and another drop in 1997 when money ran out. Lille answered by dominating Division 2 in 1999–2000, and the 2000–01 campaign after promotion earned a first-ever place in Europe, in the 2001–02 Champions League. Manchester United were beaten 1–0 in 2005, in a game staged at the Stade de France, and it showed the new Lille could mix it with giants. On 14 April 2019 a record crowd of 49,712 watched a 5–1 demolition of Paris Saint-Germain, and second place that season sent the club back into the Champions League after seven years away.
Lille play at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, a ground that holds 50,186 and opened in 2012. Before that Lille used Stadium Lille Métropole through the 2011–12 campaign, and the new home was inaugurated on 17 August 2012. It is a multi-purpose arena, with a 30,000-seat arena configuration that has hosted EuroBasket 2015 and the Davis Cup, plus games of UEFA Euro 2016 and matches by the national football and rugby union teams. Since 2022 sponsorship has also given it the name Decathlon Arena. Away from matchdays, Lille train at the Domaine de Luchin, their base since 2007, and in March 2024 the club renamed the pitch there after Eden Hazard. A big, modern bowl means the atmosphere depends on the occasion, so big European nights and the derby feel very different to a quiet midweek league game.
The big one for Lille is the Derby du Nord against RC Lens, also known as the North Derby. Lens sits 30 kilometres south of Lille, and the rivalry is fuelled by social and economic contrast: Lens is a working-class, industrial mining city, while Lille sees itself as a middle-class, modern, internationally minded cultural metropolis. Lille beat Lens in the 1948 cup final, a win over a side they counted as main rivals. A smaller fixture exists against Valenciennes, which shares the Nord department with both clubs, and that game is sometimes called Le Petit Derby du Nord, or the Little North Derby.
No defeat against Valenciennes in six for Lille, across 8 recorded meetings (all competitions).
| Rival | P | W | D | L | Goals/game | Last met |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valenciennes | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2.9 |
