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Lorient vs Metz betting tip 2024/2025

<p>A football match between <strong>Lorient</strong> and <strong>Metz</strong> of the Ligue 2 will take place in France on Saturday, January 11th, 2025, at 19:00h (UTC), check the Lorient vs Metz betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.</p><h4>Stadium and City where Lorient vs Metz will occur</h4><p>The game is set to be played in the small <strong>Stade Yves Allainmat - Le Moustoir</strong> stadium, in the city of <strong>Lorient</strong>, with a capacity for 18110 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.</p><h4>Where to follow the live game</h4><p>You can follow the <a href="https://scores.betarena.com">match live</a> on Betarena, with access to all the information to help you with your <strong>sports betting</strong>, including <strong>statistics</strong>, <strong>events</strong> and <strong>odds</strong>.</p><h2>Introduction to the Lorient vs Metz betting tip 2024/2025</h2><p>Despite the season change, the Ligue 2 has not changed much regarding goals. Today's average goals in the competition are still similar to what was seen in the tournament's last edition. The current mark is 2.49 goals per game, which is very close to the 2.46 goals per game of the last championship.</p><h4>Lorient last match</h4><p><strong>Lorient</strong> comes from a <strong>loss</strong> in the last match played. On that occasion the opponent was <strong>Laval</strong>, in a match valid for Ligue 2, and the match ended <strong>2-0</strong>. Coach <strong>O. Pantaloni's</strong> team lined up with this formation: 4-4-2.</p><p>They were defeated despite having all the favoritism before the match. A lost match that was not in anyone's plans, a result that counted with odds of 4.33.</p><p>The defense certainly did not shine in this match. One of those responsible for the crisis of the defensive department is Gedeon Kalulu, cumbersome and unpunctual, constantly behind the opponents. The team's overall underwhelming performance was also due to his disappointing performance.</p><h4>Metz last match</h4><p>On the other hand, the <strong>visiting team</strong> arrives at this match after a <strong>draw</strong> in the last round. In a dispute valid for Ligue 2, Metz, who used a 5-3-2 formation, faced the Pau team with a final score of <strong>0-0</strong>.</p><p>Taking into account the previous analysis, the probabilities of winning were high, which is reason enough to consider the draw (odd 3.50) as a bad outcome.</p><h4>Lorient vs Metz h2h</h4><p>Metz was in 10th place in the Ligue 2 while Lorient was in 4th place, the <strong>last time these teams faced each other</strong>. Metz team entered the field with the 4-4-2 formation, the same tactic Lorient used in the match.</p><p>The last time these teams met was for a <strong>Ligue 2</strong> match, on 21-09-2024, referring to the 2024/2025 season, in a competitive game that ended with a <strong>1-1 draw</strong>.</p><p>Last time a draw between these teams, what to expect now?</p><h2>Lorient</h2><h4>Ligue 2 leaderboard now</h4><p>The <strong>Lorient</strong> team with <strong>33 points</strong> currently occupies the <strong>1st place</strong> of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the Promotion, with a campaign of <strong>10 wins</strong>, <strong>3 draws</strong> and <strong>4 losses</strong>.</p><p>Which means that, with an advantage of 1 point, the team is ahead the Dunkerque team closing in at the 2nd place in the 18th round.</p><h4>Lorient analysis</h4><p>After round number 17 in Ligue 2, Lorient has 30 goals scored and 17 conceded.</p><p>The Lorient team comes from a defeat in the Ligue 2, and its coach Olivier Pantaloni wants to counter this trend by imposing a loss on his opponent, using the advantage of playing at home.</p><p>While having won twice playing away from home, this team knows how to take advantage of their home court with 8 wins, 0 losses, and 0 draws.</p><p></p><h4>Best goalscorer from Lorient</h4><p>In the individual highlights of the team in the offensive sector, the focus falls on Sambou Soumano so far in the competition. With 7 goals with his signature, the Attacker has helped his team Lorient to achieve victorious results this season.</p><p>It should also be noted that 3 of the goals scored by the player were from the penalty spot.</p><h2>Metz</h2><h4>Ligue 2 leaderboard now</h4><p>The Metz team with 30 points currently occupies the 4th place of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the Promotion Play-off, with a campaign of 8 wins, 6 draws, and 3 losses.</p><p>Which means that in the 18th round, the team has, the same score that the Annecy team who is in the position 5.</p><h4>Metz analysis</h4><p>Metz after 17 days has put up 24 goals scored, and taken 13, and thus record has a positive goal difference.</p><p>This is a top 5 team in the Ligue 2 that wants to keep up with the good performances!</p><p>Teams with ball possession above 50% typically have some control over the opponents. Therefore, the Metz team usually tries to control the game with an average ball possession of 56.94%.</p><h4>Best goalscorer from Metz</h4><p>At the individual level in the team's offensive line, we have to highlight Cheikh Sabaly. With 8 goals on his own, the Attacker has been instrumental in helping the Metz team achieving several victories this season.</p><h4>Historical data: Metz</h4><p>The Metz team is one of the leading names in the sport, with 4 titles won in the history of the tournament. The record of the team will impact the final outcome of the match and it will not be the first time the team has managed to impress its opponents with a win at a time when they are in poor form.</p><h2>For punters some entries may be relevant for this game, namely:</h2><h4>Goals Top Betting Tips</h4><p>It can also be interesting to bet on who will score in this match. The featured player of Lorient is Sambou Soumano, who has already scored 7 goals in the competition. On the other hand, the leading scorer of Metz is Cheikh Sabaly, he has scored in 8 opportunities.</p><p>A good bet could be made between 75-90 minutes of the game as this is the time most goals are scored.</p><h4>Corners Top Betting Tips</h4><p>One will find that combining the number of corners of both teams gives an average of 5.79 corners per game, making this something to note in attempting to obtain good betting results.</p><p>Lorient is usually quite offensive in their matches, and this has resulted in a high average of corner kicks in the competition. Currently, the team averages 6.82 corners per game played. Therefore, it might be interesting to bet on the over corner kicks of Lorient in this match.</p><h4>Cards Top Betting Tips</h4><p>Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 2.65 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.</p><p>This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.</p><p>Check other great betting tips <a href="https://scores.betarena.com/a/tag/forecasts">here</a>.</p>

Start winning with the Lorient vs Metz betting tip 2024/2025, game on January 11th, 2025 for the Ligue 2