Brest vs Lille Ligue 1 Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Brest have won only once against Lille in Ligue 1 in the 21st century (L6), an 86%-lose percentage, their joint-highest ratio against a top-flight opponent in that spell (level with Paris).
Brest have lost eight of their last 11 Ligue 1 games (W3), losing the last three, their longest streak in the same top-flight season since March-May 2013 (11).
Lille are unbeaten in their last 12 Ligue 1 games (W8 D4), the longest current streak in the competition, and their longest since February-May 2014 (13 – W7 D6).
Lille are unbeaten in their first nine Ligue 1 games of a season (W5 D4) for the second time in their history after 2001/02 (W5 D4 also), when they finished 5th.
Brest have lost two of their four home Ligue 1 games this season (2-3 v Marseille and 0-3 v Strasbourg), as many as in their 14 in 2019/20 (W6 D6).
Lille are unbeaten in their last seven away Ligue 1 games (W5 D2), after losing five of their previous six (W1). Only Marseille (12) are on a longer current streak in the competition.
Lille have scored in each of their last 16 Ligue 1 games, the division’s longest current streak. They have not done better since August 2010-February 2011 (20).
Lille have trailed for only nine minutes in Ligue 1 this season, fewer than any other team.
Brest’s Steve Mounie is the player who won the most aerial duels in Ligue 1 this season (47). He also topped this category in his last French top-flight season in 2016/17 with Montpellier.
Burak Yilmaz has been involved in a goal in each of his last five Ligue 1 games (4 goals, 1 assist), the first time for a Lille player since Nicolas Pépé in September-November 2018 (also 5). Eden Hazard is the last Dogues’ player to register a goal involvement in six consecutive top-flight games, between September and October 2011 (6).
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