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Ligue 111/08/2026, 02:00 PM

Rennes – LOSC Lille1 : 2

Why the model thinks so

Rennes
1.44
Total xG
2.76
LOSC Lille
1.32
Expected goals from our model, before kickoff

How the model gets there: each factor adds goals to or takes goals from one team's expected goals.

FactorRennesLOSC Lille
High-scoring league (3 goals/match)+0.50+0.50
Attack weakness (0.66x league average)−0.46
Small sample (4 matches), regression to mean+0.30
Rising form (2.5 vs 1.9 season average)+0.17
4 of last 5 matches with 0-1 goals (1 goals/match)−0.14
Small sample (5 matches), regression to mean−0.05
4 of last 5 matches with 2+ goals (2 goals/match)+0.02
Sebastian Szymanski on the bench (4 goals, 1 assists)
Przemyslaw Frankowski on the bench (1 goals, 2 assists)
Mousa Tamari on the bench (0 goals, 2 assists)
33% of goal output missing (only 70% available)
Dilane Bakwa not in squad (2 goals, 1 assists)
25% of goal output missing (only 81% available)
Weak away record (1.1 vs 1.5 goals/match)

Key factors

  • Home/Away: Rennes scores 2.6 goals per game at home in the league, LOSC Lille concedes 0.75 per game away
  • Shots: Rennes averaged 6 shots on target per game in the last 5 matches, LOSC Lille 4.2 per game

Risks

  • Squad: E. Lepaul is absent, having scored 7 of the 19 league goals by Rennes players this season (37%)
  • Table: LOSC Lille is 3rd in the league with 18 points from 9 matches, Rennes is 5th with 16 points
  • Head-to-head: LOSC Lille won 3 of the 4 past meetings, Rennes 1

All probabilities

Result
Rennes38%
Draw29%
LOSC Lille33%
Double chance
Rennes or draw67%
LOSC Lille or draw62%
No draw71%
Goals
Over 1.578%
Under 1.522%
Over 2.552%
Under 2.548%
Over 3.530%
Under 3.570%
Both teams score
Yes57%
No43%

xG score

1:1
From xG 1.44 : 1.32, rounded up only from .914% probability

Other likely scores

2:1
9%
1:2
8%
2:0
7%
2:2
6%

The Lab

Patterns our system found in the data.

  1. Rennes: 6 consecutive games with 3+ goals (last 12 games)
  2. Rennes: goal in the first 15 minutes in 6 of 12 games (50%)

Lineups

Rennes 3-5-2 · LOSC Lille 4-3-3

Rennes
  • 30 B. Samba
  • 48 Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal
  • 4 C. Cresswell
  • 5 G. Calisto Oliveira
  • 14 B. Reynolds
  • 28 A. Thomasson
  • 21 V. Rongier
  • 45 M. Camara
  • 18 M. Nagida
  • 22 B. Dia
  • 12 E. Mayenda Dossou
LOSC Lille
  • 1 B. Özer
  • 3 N. Ngoy
  • 23 N. Kouassi
  • 4 A. Souza Ribeiro
  • 24 C. Verdonk
  • 17 N. Mukau
  • 6 N. Bentaleb
  • 21 B. André
  • 8 E. Mbappé Lottin
  • 10 H. Haraldsson
  • 35 S. Diaoune
Substitutes
  • 24 A. Rouault
  • 10 L. Blas
  • 11 M. Al Tamari
  • 95 P. Frankowski
  • 26 Q. Merlin
  • 6 D. Cisse
  • 90 I. Soumaré
  • 17 S. Szymański
  • 16 N. Lemaître
  • 9 O. Giroud
  • 15 R. Perraud
  • 11 O. Sahraoui
  • 7 D. Bakwa
  • 14 M. Kjaergaard
  • 26 I. Cossier
  • 38 M. Goffi
  • 28 G. Perrin
  • 12 O. Gill

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