Ligue 1 · first half goals
Olympique Lyonnais First Half Goals
In 185 Ligue 1 matches, 71.9% of Olympique Lyonnais’ first halves produced a goal, 11th of the 22 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 51.4% of them and conceded in 43.2%.
What Olympique Lyonnais’ first halves look like
Most of the early scoring in Olympique Lyonnais’ matches is their own doing. They find the net before the break in 51.4% of matches and let one in during 43.2%, 8.2pp apart. Home advantage is worth a little to Olympique Lyonnais rather than a lot: 54.8% of home matches bring an early goal of theirs against 47.8% away.
There is more record to read here than for most of the division: 185 matches against a typical 151. Olympique Lyonnais attack the first half better than they guard it: 6th of 22 in the division for scoring before halftime, 9th for keeping the other side out.
A Olympique Lyonnais home first half is worth 1.41 goals on average, an away one 1.16. Olympique Lyonnais sit 11th of 22 published Ligue 1 clubs for the share of their first halves that produce a goal.
Every figure on this page rests on 185 completed Olympique Lyonnais matches over 6 seasons (2021 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Olympique Lyonnais first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 71.9% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 34.6% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 16.2% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.29 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 51.4% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 43.2% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.69 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.60 |
| Matches counted | 185 |
| Seasons covered | 6 (2021 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 74.2% | 40.9% | 54.8% | 43.0% | 1.41 | 93 |
| Away | 69.6% | 28.3% | 47.8% | 43.5% | 1.16 | 92 |
Olympique Lyonnais score before halftime 54.8% of the time at home against 47.8% away, a gap of 7.0pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Olympique Lyonnais against Ligue 1
| Line | Olympique Lyonnais | Ligue 1 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 71.9% | 71.9% | +0.0pp |
| Over 1.5 | 34.6% | 35.5% | −0.9pp |
| Over 2.5 | 16.2% | 14.7% | +1.5pp |
Counted from 185 matches · 6 seasons · 2021 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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