Monaco vs Lorient Prediction & Betting Tips (17 March)

Deprived of Europe this year, AS Monaco is seeking at all costs to avoid a 2nd consecutive season without playing any continental competition. Fortunately for him, the Rocher club seems on the right track to remedy this situation and he could even get a ticket for the Champions League since he is currently in 3rd place in the ranking, directly qualifying for the C1. With 45 points on the clock, Adi Hütter's men are 3 points ahead of 4th and only one point behind 2nd, Brest, who faced each other earlier in the day. Serious lately, the Principality club has achieved 2 successes over the last 3 days played against Monaco 2-3, PSG 0-0 and Strasbourg 0-1, last week. For its part, FC Lorient is well aware that his room for maneuver is extremely limited at the end of the season if he wishes to keep his place in the elite.

Weighed down by a completely failed first part of the season, the Bretons are only in 15th position in the ranking, with the same number of points as the Nantes play-off, at the start of this 26th day. However, the Merlus have not been ridiculous since the start of the return phase. But they still lost twice in their last 3 contested outings against Nantes 0-1, Rennes victory 1-2 and Lyon 0-2 last Saturday.

ASM will still have to do without the titular left piston Caio Henrique, and the long-term injured Embolo who have still not recovered from their respective injuries. Midfielder Camara must also withdraw at the same time as starting defender Salisu. Senegalese international Krepin Diatta is available again. Otherwise, most of this team's offensive executives will be available. We think of the excellent Minamino (6 goals, 5 assists), the scorer Ben Yedder (11 goals), the Russian Golovin (6 goals, 4 assists) and the promising Akliouche (5 goals). Last week, it was young hopeful Ben Seghir who scored his team's only goal to give his team victory in Strasbourg, his first achievement of the season. Note that Majecki has been the starting goalkeeper for 3 matches in place of Köhn.

Midfielder Boisgard, world champion full-back Benjamin Mendy, and potentially starting defender Igor Silva will still have to give up participating in this meeting. The starting central defender Talbi and midfielder Innocent have also joined the infirmary in recent days. Finally, solid defender Isaac Touré will be suspended for an accumulation of yellow cards. On the other hand, Régis Le Bris should be able to count on his winter recruits like the piston Katseris, the midfielder Louza and the striker Bamba (Wolfsberger) who has already scored 6 times since his arrival in Morbihan. Also watch out for young Kroupi who has goals at only 17 years old.