Lyon in search of away win as Toulouse host Les Gones.

Toulouse FC vs. Olympique Lyonnais kicks off at 14:00 [GMT+1] on Sunday, September 29, at Stadium de Toulouse.

Toulouse have experienced a mixed start to their 2024-2025 Ligue 1 campaign, which began with back-to-back draws in their opening two games. A win sandwiched between two losses [DDLWL] further reflects the team's inconsistency, with the latest result being a 2-0 defeat to Brest last weekend. After conceding an early goal, Toulouse had a chance to equalise from the spot, but Zakaria Aboukhlal's miss proved costly, as Les Violets conceded a second goal in stoppage time, resulting in their second league defeat in three games. ‘I think we played enough, we generated enough, we did enough things to win the game, but of course, football is if you don’t score, you cannot win games,’ Carles Martínez Novell said after the game. ‘We have to keep working and try to be better next week,’ he added, shifting focus to this Sunday’s league encounter with Lyon at the Stadium de Toulouse. Currently 13th in the league standings, Les Violets will look to bounce back with a win against 14th-placed Lyon, aiming to extend the narrow point gap over this weekend’s opponent. However, the hosts have not won any of their last 15 Ligue 1 games against Lyon, their second-longest winless run against a single opponent in the topflight after Marseille [21]. Having secured a 2-0 win over Le Havre in their last home league game, Novell’s men could record back-to-back clean sheets at home in the Ligue 1 for the first time since August 2019 [2]. A 3—4—2—1 could be seen this weekend, with Yann Gboho in attack.

Lyon got off to a flying start in their Europa League campaign following a 2-0 victory over Olympiacos in midweek. Goals from Rayan Cherki [65’] and substitute Saïd Benrahma [71’] were all it took to secure three points in Pierre Sage’s first European game in charge. ‘What did we learn from Sunday? We knew it was a big disappointment because when you see the match we played and all the chances we created, we should never have lost, so we were really fired up for this match,’ Cherki reflected after contributing to the win while recalling last weekend’s disappointing 3-2 loss to Marseille in the league. Lyon fell short against 10-man Marseille, despite having a numerical advantage for almost the entire game following Leonardo Balerdi’s 5th-minute red card. Les Gones [LLWDL] will now look to build on their success on the European front, aiming to overturn their underwhelming league performance with a win when they travel to Toulouse this weekend. A 3—5—2 is expected with Alexandre Lacazette and Gift Orban in attack.