It’s just unbelievable that Lyon hasn’t won a single game for over one month. Their last triumph was back in October, and such a long winless streak hasn’t been recorded in their club history for a long time. Many have been criticizing coach Puel saying he didn’t fit in the squad in the best way possible. They criticize him the most about the lack of quality defensive players. Since their defense is the best part of their squad, it can be expected Puel will attempt to hire a few good defenders. Their offense has been clicking quite well, and the new acquisition – striker Lopez has been scoring goals with no mercy. In the last game against Lille, outstanding Portuguese has scored a hat-trick in the first half already, but the defense again cracked later on and the match was lost 4:3. Lyon played well in the CL practically already ensuring qualification to the knockout phase after the first 3 rounds when they recorded all wins. Their tonight’s clash against Debrecen has got a certain competitive significance for them. The thing is, a 2-goal win would mean they would get a bit weaker opponent in the next phase, with the condition of Fiorentina not winning in Liverpool. Lyon still has got injury problems. Anderson and Bodmer are still sidelined, while Cissokho and Toulalan will probably be out too. Bastos and Gonalon have recovered and will be in contention for the starting lineup. We can expect Puel to make a few combinations with his squad, since Lyon is awaiting a derby in the French league against Bordeaux next weekend. The lineup could be the following: Lloris; Clerc, Cris, Boumsong, Reveillere; Gonalons, Kallstrom; Michel Bastos, Ederson, Cesar Delgado; Lisandro.
Tourists
Just by entering CL group phase, Debrecen has recorded a major success. They knew they had no chances to record some bigger result so they entered their matches relaxed, without much seriousness and with the desire to outplay the opponent. In the matches against the more quality sides that had quite big consequences as Debrecen only recorded losses so far. They lost by narrow margin to Liverpool two times, but they had a really bad time against Lyon and Fiorentina. In the 5 games they played, they conceded 15 goals, which is the worst goal difference of all CL teams. They’re arriving to their last road game with the intention of playing as beautiful as possible, and if possible score a goal too. Coach Herzog will field the best lineup with the exception of injured Poleksic and Feczesin: Pantic; Bodnar, Szelesi, Komlosi, Leandro; Kiss; Czvitkovics, Ramos, Varga, Laczko; Rudolf.
Relaxed
Although Lyon will probably playing with the mixed squad, I expect Puel to insist on a win in order to get his side back to the winning ways. The hosts have got more than enough quality and talent to fight against the guests in somewhat changed lineup. The Hungarians will enter this match just like all previous ones – with the desire to play good football. That tells us we can expect goals in this game, and since I think Debrecen can also score, I’d suggest you a bet on the over 3.5.
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Prediction:
Tip: Over 2.5
Odd: 2.30
Bookie: Bet365
Stake: 6 /10
Tipster: Kather
