📏 Form Guide

Monaco

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Monaco will be looking for another win after a 1-2 Coupe De France victory vs AJ Auxerre.

In that game, Monaco managed 60% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 9 on target. The scorer for Monaco was Mika Biereth (8', 74'). On the other side, Auxerre had 18 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Assane Dioussé (29') scored for AJ Auxerre.

In their preceding 6 fixtures, Sébastien Pocognoli's Monaco have scored a combined total of 6 times - an average number of goals per match of 1.

Going into this encounter, Monaco have not been beaten in the league by Lyon in their previous 2 games.

Lyon

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Lyon will come into the clash after a 3-0 Coupe De France win with the defeat of Saint-Cyr Collonges in their most recent match.

For Lyon, the goals were scored by Abner (52') and Pavel Šulc (85', 90').

A series of reliable showings from the Lyon defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 2 from their past 6 clashes combined. During the same time, their own attack force has managed to score 15.

Coming into this contest, Lyon haven’t won away from home in the past 5 league matches.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels going back to 11/09/2022, neither club has come out on top overall with Monaco winning 3 of those games, Lyon 3 and 0 being draws in normal time.

In all, 17 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 9 from Les Rouge et Blanc and 8 created by Lyon. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.83.

The last league contest featuring these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 33 on 10/05/2025 when it ended Monaco 2-0 Lyon.

That day, Monaco managed 51% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorers were Takumi Minamino (62') and Denis Zakaria (68').

Lyon had 9 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

The referee was Benoît Bastien.

📰 Team News: Monaco

Eric Dier (Calf injury), Ansu Fati (Hamstring injury) and Takumi Minamino (Torn knee ligaments) are not available for Monaco gaffer Sébastien Pocognoli.

We are thinking that Les Rouge et Blanc look set to opt for a 4-4-2 formation for this one and select Lukas Hradecky, Christian Mawissa, Thilo Kehrer, Mohammed Salisu, Caio Henrique, Maghnes Akliouche, Mamadou Coulibaly, Jordan Teze, Aleksandr Golovin, Mika Biereth and Folarin Balogun.

ℹ️ Team News: Lyon

We believe Lyon could decide to utilise a 4-4-2 formation using Dominik Greif, Ruben Kluivert, Clinton Mata, Nicolas Tagliafico, A. Maitland-Niles, Tanner Tessmann, Tyler Morton, Afonso Moreira, Corentin Tolisso, Pavel Sulc and Martin Satriano.

💡 Prediction

It seems to us that Lyon will have a tough assignment to find the net against a Monaco side who have the quality to dominate this match.

We are anticipating a 3-0 margin for Monaco when the referee blows the final whistle.

Renata Leite, 15:02 03/01/2026