UEFA Europa League Round 3 2026-10-22 · 19:00 UTC finished
Hoffenheim (home)
VS PreZero Arena, Sinsheim
Lyon (away)
Prediction
24% Hoffenheim (home)
20% Draw
56% Lyon (away) Model favorite
Expected goals 1.11 — 1.88 Over 2.5 goals: 57% Both teams to score: 57%

Model: history/v2-w1460-r150. Probabilities are produced by our own model from public match data. They are not odds and not betting advice.

Why — recent form

"—" means the number is not available in our data; we never fill gaps with zeros. Recent form covers only matches with expected-goals data, which may be fewer than the team's actual recent fixtures.

Metric Hoffenheim Lyon
Recent xG (attack, per-match avg) 1.751.51
Recent xGA (defence, per-match avg) 1.330.91
Sample size (matches with xG data) 55
Rest days since last match 44
Season pressing (PPDA, lower = more intense) 8.6 11.9
Matches in the last 7 days 33
Matches in the next 7 days 33
Travel to this match (km) 279485

What could go against this prediction

The model's top probability is below 70%; in backtests matches in this band end as predicted about 53.4% of the time.

Injuries & suspensions

Latest pre-match snapshot from our data source; availability varies by league.

Hoffenheim

  • injured Albian Hajdari return: A few weeks
  • injured Nathan De Cat return: Late November 2026
  • injured Patrick Wimmer return: Mid November 2026

Lyon

  • injured Loïs Openda return: Mid November 2026
  • injured Mohamed Ouédraogo return: Late June 2027
  • injured Nicolás Tagliafico return: A few weeks
  • injured Pavel Sulc return: About a week

Head to head

All-time (per our source): Hoffenheim 0 · 3 3 draws · 0 Lyon

DateHome ScoreAway
2024-11-07Hoffenheim 2 - 2Lyon
2018-11-07Lyon 2 - 2Hoffenheim
2018-10-23Hoffenheim 3 - 3Lyon
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Data coverage

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