Europa League · League phase, matchday 2 Match report

Lyon 3-2 Crystal Palace: Result, Match Stats and Our Prediction

Lyon

3-2Full time

Crystal Palace

Thursday 15 October 2026, 16:45 UTC Groupama Stadium, Décines-Charpieu

Our picks against the result

6 of 12 right

Result Crystal Palace win41% 3-2
Double chance Lyon or Crystal Palace (12)77% 3-2
Goals over/under 2.5 Over 2.552% 5 goals
More corners Lyon55% Lyon (5-3)
Yellow cards Around average 4 yellow cards · league 3.1
Yellow cards 4 yellow cards 3.5 Under64% 4.5 Under81% 5.5 Under91%
Corners Around average 8 corners · league 10.6
Corners 8 corners 8.5 Over65% 9.5 Over54% 10.5 Under56%

Match stats

Lyon Crystal Palace

3 Goals 2
1 Yellow cards 3
0 Red cards 0
5 Corners 3

Goals, yellow and red cards and corners of each club.

Before kick-off

What this page showed before the match: our reasons, form, ratings and records as they were then.

Match summary

Lyon vs Crystal Palace, in the Europa League league phase on Thursday 15 October 2026, takes our model to the Groupama Stadium siding with the visitors, while the double chance covers either side and rules out the draw.

Why this pick?

Crystal Palace are our pick, mainly because our model's long-run, xG-based strength rating places them above Lyon, with both clubs sitting clearly above the Europa League average. The strongest point on the other side is Lyon's home advantage at the Groupama Stadium, and our goal model's reading of the matchup also leans slightly against the visitors. The pick holds because the gap in quality counts for more than playing at home, and Palace come in with an above-average rate of big chances created across their last five matches, even if they also concede a fair amount. It is a narrow call.

Form guide

Lyon

L 1-2 at Lens (A) Ligue 1 · 9 Oct
W 4-0 vs Rennes (H) Ligue 1 · 19 Sep
W 2-1 at Anderlecht (A) Europa League · 16 Sep
D 0-0 at Paris FC (A) Ligue 1 · 12 Sep
W 3-1 vs Auxerre (H) Ligue 1 · 4 Sep

Crystal Palace

W 3-1 vs Nottingham Forest (H) Premier League · 11 Oct
D 0-0 at Leeds United (A) Premier League · 20 Sep
W 4-0 vs Lech Poznań (H) Europa League · 17 Sep
L 2-3 vs Ipswich Town (H) Premier League · 12 Sep
W 3-0 vs Middlesbrough (H) EFL Cup · 8 Sep

Last five competitive matches before kick-off, all competitions, results after 90 minutes.

Attack and defence ratings

LyonCrystal Palace

Attack 89 83 2.0 goals per match this season4.0 goals per match this season

Defence 77 83 1.0 conceded per match this season0.0 conceded per match this season

0 to 100 against this season's Europa League clubs (100 = best). The rating is our model's long-run strength before this match: it uses the last three years and counts recent matches most, so a few results do not move it at once. Under each rating: this season's actual goals per match.