📊 Form Guide

Nantes

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Nantes prepare for this match coming off the back of a 0-0 Ligue 1 stalemate versus Brest.

In that game, Nantes had 49% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 0 of them on target. For their opponents, Brest got 17 shots at goal with 5 on target.

In their preceding six fixtures, Luís Castro's Nantes have seen rewards for their attempts on goal 5 times, an average number of goals scored per match of 0.83.

Their previous form shows that Nantes:

• haven't lost in the league to Lille in their previous 2 games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Lille

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In their previous game, Lille drew 1-1 in the Ligue 1 match with Paris Saint-Germain.

In that match, Lille had 37% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Lille was Ethan Mbappé (85'). Paris Saint-Germain had 17 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Mendes (66') was the scorer for Paris Saint-Germain.

The numbers tell their own story, and Lille have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 7 goals overall. In defence, Lille just haven’t been too solid at all. We will just have to see whether or not that trend will be continued on in this game.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head meetings going back to 12/08/2022 tells us that Nantes have won 1 of these & Lille 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 2.

In all, 13 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 5 from Les Canaris and 8 for LOSC. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The previous league encounter featuring these sides was Ligue 1 match day 26 on 15/03/2025 which ended up with the score at Nantes 1-0 Lille.

In that game, Nantes had 32% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 on target. The scorer was Mostafa Mohamed (83').

On the other side, Lille had 13 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target.

The referee was Benoît Millot.

📰 Team News: Nantes

The Nantes boss Luís Castro will be grateful to have no fitness worries at all before this clash with a fully healthy squad ready to go.

It’s our opinion that Les Canaris may well make use of the 4-1-2-3 formation in the match featuring Anthony Lopes, Kelvin Amian, Chidozie Awaziem, Junior Mwanga, Louis Leroux, Hyeok-Kyu Kwon, Hyun-Seok Hong, Dehmaine Tabibou, Mayckel Lahdo, Mostafa Mohamed and Matthis Abline.

🗞️ Team News: Lille

With a fully healthy group available to select from, the Lille boss Bruno Génésio has zero fitness concerns to speak of coming into this clash.

There’s a good chance that LOSC could decide to utilise a 4-3-3 formation, starting Berke Ozer, Thomas Meunier, Nathan Ngoy, Aissa Mandi, Romain Perraud, Benjamin Andre, Nabil Bentaleb, Ayyoub Bouaddi, H. Arnar Haraldsson, Olivier Giroud and M. Fernandez-Pardo.

✨ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Nantes must be fancied to score against this Lille outfit, but one goal possibly won’t quite be enough to avoid defeat.

We’ve gone for a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 winning margin for Lille when the referee blows the final whistle.

Peter Guest, 10:20 19/10/2025