A battle between youth and experience takes centre stage at the Stade de la Meinau, with both teams hopeful of making a winning start to the new season.
Lyon have scored in each of their last 25 meetings with Strasbourg and they will fancy their chances of finding the net again on Sunday, but we believe that the hosts will do enough to claim a point.
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Data Analysis
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Lyon win with a probability of 40.08%. A win for Strasbourg had a probability of 33.19% and a draw had a probability of 26.7%.
The most likely scoreline for a Lyon win was 0-1 with a probability of 10.65%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 1-2 (8.5%) and 0-2 (7.13%). The likeliest Strasbourg win was 1-0 (9.5%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (12.7%). The actual scoreline of 2-1 was predicted with a 7.6% likelihood.