Reims vs FC Lorient Ligue 1 Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Reims have lost two of their last three games in Ligue 1 against Lorient (W1), after remaining unbeaten in their first five (W2 D3).
Reims have lost only one of their four home games against Lorient in Ligue 1 (W2 D1) -in February 2015 (1-3).
Reims have scored in all of their top-flight home games against Lorient (7 goals overall). Reims have won two of their last four home games against promoted sides in Ligue 1 (L2), after winning none of the previous 10 (D7 L3).
Reims have picked up two points in Ligue 1 in 2020/21, their second worst tally after six games of a Ligue 1 season after 1971/72 (1, 15th at the end of the season).
Lorient are winless in their last five games in Ligue 1 (D1 L4), only Reims and Dijon are currently on a worst run in the top-flight (6 each).
Reims have lost their last two home games in Ligue 1 (0-1 v Lille, 0-2 v Paris) but have not lost three home games in a row in the top-flight since October-November 2015 (3).
Lorient have lost each of their last six away games in Ligue 1, the worst current run among the teams involved in Ligue 1 in 2020/21 and their worst run since April-November 2016 (8).
Lorient have conceded 13 goals while having 7.39xG against them in Ligue 1 in 2020/21, a differential of -5.61, the worst in the top-flight this season.
Reims striker Boulaye Dia has scored one goal for every 1.2 shots on target in Ligue 1 in 2020, the best rate among players with more than three goals in that spell. Pierre-Yves Hamel has been involved in each of Lorient's last three goals in Ligue 1 (1 goal, 2 assists).
He has been involved in a goal every 64 minutes in the top-flight this season (2 goals and 2 assists in 257 minutes), only Kylian Mbappe (involved in a goal every 52 minutes) has done better among players involved in three goals or more in Ligue 1 in 2020/21.
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