Valencia vs Lille OSC
All participants of UCL Group H, including Valencia and Lille. They met in the fourth week planned to be held at Mestalla. The host tried to reap maximum results after only playing in the first meeting.
At that time Valencia played the role of a Lille guest and had to settle for 1-1. The disaster began with Mouctar Diakhaby’s red card in minute 84 ‘which was successfully used by the host to score the equalizer through Nanitamo Ikone’s effort at minute 90 + 5’.
Regarding tomorrow’s match, Valencia has just won over Espanyol in the 12th week of La Liga. The match was held last Saturday (2/11) with 1-2 positions for Los Che. Daniel Parejo equalized on 69 minutes ‘through the white point, while Maximiliano Gomez Gonzalez managed to secure victory in the 80th minute’. This result also helped them move up to 13th place.
Meanwhile, Lille appeared on the same day when facing Marseille. Only, they lost 2-1 in this match so they have to go down to rank 5 Ligue 1 in the 12th week. This disaster is a bad feeling ahead of the visit tomorrow because they both acted in the cage of the enemy. In fact, Lille was also the last contestant of Group H that has not tasted victory to this day, beginning with the defeat of Ajax (3-0) and Chelsea (1-2). Therefore, they also become the basic inhabitants of the standings.
Valencia itself will try to use that gap to win, while opening opportunities to climb to the top which is currently contested by Chelsea and Ajax who both pocketed 6 points, aka two points ahead. They’ve entertained Lille at the Mestalla at UEL 2009 and UCL 2012, and managed to win with a score of 3-1 and 2-0. That tradition will try to be maintained in the absence of Mouctar Diakhaby who underwent sanctions and Cristiano Piccini who suffered injuries, while four other players are doubtful. So, Valencia is predicted to win with a thin score.
Our Prediction: Over 2.5
Odds: 2.10