Betting tips for Lyon vs CSKA Moscow - 15.03.2018

The host of the next Europa League final receives the visit of CSKA Moscow in the return leg of the 1/8 finals of the second European competition. In the first leg, the French team won by 0-1. Olympique Lyon is 4th in Ligue 1, adding 15 wins, 9 draws and 5 in 29 games. In Europe, the team added two draws in the first two matches of the group stage (1-1 in Limassol and at home, against Atalanta) before beating Everton in their double duel (1-2 at Goodison Park and 3 -0 in Parc OL in the last day) and end up yielding in Bergamo against Atalanta, which put him as second of Group E. In the previous round, the team eliminated Villarreal, which won in both games.

The Lyon club has a budget of 145.65 million euros for this season in which it hopes to return to fight for the titles in France, and return to compete with good grades in Europe. The team has entered 102 million euros with the sales of French international striker Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal paid 53 million euros); midfielder Corentin Tolisso to Bayern Munich in exchange for 41.5 million; the pivot Maxime Gonalons to AS Roma in exchange for 5 million; from Maciej Rybus to Lokomotiv Moscow for 1.75 million; and that of Mathieu Valbuena to Fenerbahçe for 1.5 million euros more. Six are the reinforcements of the team in this summer market: the end Bertrand Traore, signed by Chelsea in exchange for 10 million euros; Real Madrid forward Mariano Díaz; the center of Besiktas, Marcelo; the side Ferland Mendy, from Le Havre; left-back Brazilian Marçal, from Benfica; and Ajax right-back Kenny Tete.

Last weekend, the Lyon won 1-0 at Caen.


 CSKA Moscow fell in the group stage of the top European competition, finishing third in Group A behind Manchester United and Basel. The Russian team had to eliminate AEK Athens and Young Boys in the previous Champions League qualifiers. In their debut, CSKA won SL Benfica in Lisbon (1-2), before falling consecutively at home against Manchester United (1-4) and Basel (0-2). The victory in Basel puts them squarely in the fight for second place, tied with 6 points with the Swiss two games to go.

After seeing how his great rival in the Russian capital, the Lokomotiv, took the title in the Premier League last season, the team grabs this competition to look to return to the Champions League next season to win this title, and that at the moment, the team is 3rd in the Russian league after adding 41 points in 22 games.

With more than 78 million euros of budget, the CSKA Moscow of the Russian army will have Viktor Goncharenko as the head. The sale of playmaker Kirill Panchenko to Dinamo Moscow in exchange for 1.8 million euros, along with the departure of goalkeeper Sergey Chepchugov to Enisey have been the two main movements of the team, which let go to Serbian right-winger Zoran Tosic and the offensive midfielder Roman Eremenko, who has lent midfielder Sergey Tkachev to Arsenal Tula and center forward Konstantin Bazelyuk to Anzh

Lyon vs CSKA Moscow Prediction: X/1 4.50

Lyon vs CSKA Moscow   Betting Tip: Over  2.5 Goals @ 1.80

Lyon vs CSKA Moscow   Score Recommendations: 2-1 10.00