Paulo Fonseca has little interest in chasing data, along with his solely give attention to beating Good to ensure that Lyon to spice up their top-four hopes in Ligue 1.
Lyon sit third within the desk after Marseille dropped factors in a 2-2 draw with Strasbourg on Saturday, and so they might now open up a five-point hole over Les Minots.
Their surge up the desk has come courtesy of a six-game profitable streak in Ligue 1, their finest such run in practically six years. That streak stretches to seven matches in all competitions.
However Fonseca has shrugged off the concept that Lyon, who can be with out Endrick by suspension, are chasing the win for some other purpose than so as to add three factors to their tally.
“It’s [records] not a objective for me. I really like having that chance, however an important factor is what we might do on the finish of the season,” Fonseca stated.
“I do know we’ve lengthy profitable streaks, however I don’t know the precise statistics.
“We’re excessive within the desk, we’ve the Europa League and the Coupe de France, so there can be strain. We have to method this second with a variety of composure.”
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Good, in the meantime, are struggling on the different finish of the desk, sitting 14th on 23 factors, although they’re 9 factors away from the relegation play-off place.
They’re unbeaten of their final three video games, coming into this match on the again of a 0-0 draw with Monaco.
However they should work exhausting for a win towards Lyon, who boast probably the greatest defensive data in Ligue 1, having let in simply 20 objectives of their 21 video games up to now, a degree of pleasure for Fonseca.
“The character of this workforce, the best way all of the gamers are keen to work defensively, that’s the primary purpose [for their solidity],” Fonseca added.
“Earlier than the season began, I studied what was occurring in soccer, what our strengths have been, and the place we wanted to enhance.
“I understood that to enhance defensively, we wanted to progress individually. We labored rather a lot on our defensive position and our urgent.
“However the primary clarification is the workforce’s character and the way we work collectively defensively. We labored rather a lot on the person facet, one-on-one conditions, the best way to defend in these conditions.”
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Lyon – Pavel Suic
Sulc scored his tenth objective of the Ligue 1 season final day trip to safe a 1-0 win over Nantes.
The Lyon striker is the fourth Czech participant to attain not less than 10 occasions in a single Ligue 1 season, after Antonin Tichy in 1947-48 (10), Karel Michlovsky in 1949-50 (16) and Lubos Kubik in 1992-93 (11).
Good – Elye Wahi
Wahi has scored extra Ligue 1 objectives towards Lyon than some other opponent (eight, together with 4 objectives on the Groupama Stadium with Montpellier in Might 2023).
Wahi has netted three objectives this season in simply 4 league begins and has the perfect minutes-per-goal ratio amongst all Good gamers (one each 123 minutes).