Match Report
31 points for Bordeaux (20th), 36 for Lorient (16th): a 5-point gap. Recent form flatters Bordeaux's table spot — 16th league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 20th. Against a league average of 1.4 goals per team per game, Bordeaux ran at 1.37 scored and 2.39 conceded, Lorient at 0.92 and 1.66.
Defeat had followed defeat for Bordeaux — three in succession. Lorient had been beaten in three straight games.
GioScore's database holds 20 meetings between the two: 10 for Bordeaux, 4 for Lorient and 6 drawn, at 3.2 goals per meeting. Playing at home matters in this fixture: 65% of the meetings went to the host. The fixture leans high-scoring: 60% of meetings brought at least three goals, and both sides scored in 70%.
The venue was Stade Matmut-Atlantique in Bordeaux, with room for 42,115 spectators. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.