Nantes vs Lorient Predictions

Defensive concerns to cost Lorient

Nantes should be backed to get a home win over Lorient in a Breton derby on Sunday. The visitors have struggled at the back this season and Nantes manager Luis Manuel Ferreira de Castro will fancy his side’s chances of getting at them.

Both teams are struggling at the wrong end of Ligue 1. The hosts are two places above their visitors in 15th, but both teams have won just twice and lost six times from their 12 games this season.

The visitors are looking vulnerable at the back. Lorient have yet to keep a clean sheet away from home this season, conceding 13 goals in six road games – an average of 2.17 goals per game.

Nantes have gone unbeaten in nine of the last ten Ligue 1 head-to-head meetings with Lorient, who have lost their last three away games and have only won one of their last ten matches overall.

The visitors are struggling to find the net. Lorient have been beaten and failed to score in eight of their last ten Ligue 1 away games and come into this match on a run of three games without a goal.

The visitors are enduring a rough spell on the road, with Lorient failing to win any of their last 11 Ligue 1 away games, including all six this season.

Nantes to get the 2-0 home win looks a decent correct-score option. Four of Nantes’ last six Ligue 1 games have had fewer than three goals and two of Lorient’s last three away days have ended in a 2-0 defeat.

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Edited by Mark Langdon