Ligue 1 preview: Can Reims edge out victory against Clermont?

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Competition: France Ligue 1
Competition: Sun 20.Aug
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Auguste-Delaune II (21029 seats)

Round two of the Ligue 1 campaign and the squads have had a few days to digest the first match. Here's our Reims - Clermont guide:

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Reims form and stats

The season before, Reims's league statistics were 12 wins, 15 draws and 11 losses, resulting in 11th position in the Ligue 1. During these 38 matches they scored {45 goals} and let in 45. Performing as the home side in the last season Reims produced 8-6-5 (win-draw-lost) with {28 goals} and 23 conceded.

In their previous game, the manager Still led his Reims to a defeat away at Olympique Marseille. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stade Auguste-Delaune II. Midfield player Ito got a match rating of 7.6 in that game, the max score being 10. Ito scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Before that game, the home loss against Montpellier with the scoreline 1-3.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Reims handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

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Clermont form and stats

Let's have a look at how Clermont performed last season in the Ligue 1: They landed a 8th position in the league table after playing out 17 victories, 8 draws and 13 defeats. In total they scored 45 and conceded {49 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 8 - drew 5 and lost 6 with 25/21 goals scored/conceded.

Clermont failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Monaco (placed 2nd) that ended with defeat 2-4. A mental game with lots of goals last time out for Clermont, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that match, will this game be as refreshing? Cham-Saračević, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.43. Cham-Saračević scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 37 successful passes (of 42 total).

Preceding that game was the away victory against Paris Saint Germain with the score of 3-2.

We have checked recent matches where Clermont have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 8 games were 2 victories, 1 draw and 5 defeats.

Head 2 Head

Data for the preceeding ten meetings between these two participants are: four wins for Reims, two draws and four wins for Clermont. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.

Top Goalscorers

ReimsJ. Ito
J. Ito
1 goals
ClermontM. Saracevic
M. Saracevic
1 goals
ClermontM. Wieteska
M. Wieteska
1 goals

Reims missing players

Clermont missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Reims Clermont
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 0 1
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
1 0 0 Scored S 0 0 2
2 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 4
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
10 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 6
10 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 2
3 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 15
4 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 7
25% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 29%
 
14 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 14
4 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 8
Reims Last season Clermont
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
38 19   Played P   19 38
12 8   Won W   8 17
15 6   Drew D   5 8
11 5   Lost L   6 13
45 28   Scored S   25 45
45 23   Conceded C   21 49
84% 89%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   89% 92%
66% 74%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   74% 79%
45% 53%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   47% 47%
24% 32%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   16% 18%
11% 11%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   11% 8%
47% 53%   BTTS BTTS   63% 55%
37% 37%   Clean Sheets C S   26% 26%
32% 21%   Failed to Score F T   21% 26%
 
4.7 4.9   Corners for (avg) C F   3.3 4.1
4.6 4.2   Corners against (avg) C A   4.6 4
1.9 1.7   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.2 1.9
9 3   Red cards R C   1 5
 
14.3 16.3   Shots (avg) S (   10.3 10.6
4.9 5.7   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.9 3.9
24% 26%   Goal Efficiency G E   34% 30%
 
13.3 12.3   Shots against (avg) S A   14 12.9
4.6 4.5   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.5 4.4

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Rennes 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
2 Monaco 1 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3
3 Brest 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
4 Olympique Marseille 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Toulouse 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
6 Strasbourg 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
7 Montpellier 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
8 Le Havre 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
9 Nice 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
10 Lille 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
11 Paris Saint Germain 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
12 Lorient 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
13 Lens 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
14 Reims 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
15 Olympique Lyonnais 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
16 Nantes 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
17 Clermont 1 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
18 Metz 1 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 5 -4 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Paris Saint Germain 38 27 4 7 89 40 19 13 2 4 45 25 19 14 2 3 44 15 49 85
2 Lens 38 25 9 4 68 29 19 17 1 1 41 13 19 8 8 3 27 16 39 84
3 Olympique Marseille 38 22 7 9 67 40 19 10 4 5 35 24 19 12 3 4 32 16 27 73
4 Rennes 38 21 5 12 69 39 19 15 0 4 43 14 19 6 5 8 26 25 30 68
5 Lille 38 19 10 9 65 44 19 13 4 2 40 25 19 6 6 7 25 19 21 67
6 Monaco 38 19 8 11 70 58 19 9 3 7 37 33 19 10 5 4 33 25 12 65
7 Olympique Lyonnais 38 18 8 12 65 47 19 10 5 4 35 19 19 8 3 8 30 28 18 62
8 Clermont 38 17 8 13 45 49 19 9 3 7 20 28 19 8 5 6 25 21 -4 59
9 Nice 38 15 13 10 48 37 19 7 7 5 24 18 19 8 6 5 24 19 11 58
10 Lorient 38 15 10 13 52 53 19 9 4 6 26 21 19 6 6 7 26 32 -1 55
11 Reims 38 12 15 11 45 45 19 8 6 5 28 23 19 4 9 6 17 22 0 51
12 Montpellier 38 15 5 18 65 62 19 7 3 9 29 29 19 8 2 9 36 33 3 50
13 Toulouse 38 13 9 16 51 57 19 6 6 7 27 27 19 7 3 9 24 30 -6 48
14 Brest 38 11 11 16 44 54 19 7 5 7 24 26 19 4 6 9 20 28 -10 44
15 Strasbourg 38 9 13 16 51 59 19 5 7 7 25 26 19 4 6 9 26 33 -8 40
16 Nantes 38 7 15 16 37 55 19 5 8 6 20 26 19 2 7 10 17 29 -18 36
17 Auxerre 38 8 11 19 35 63 19 5 7 7 18 28 19 3 4 12 17 35 -28 35
18 Ajaccio 38 7 5 26 23 74 19 4 3 12 10 30 19 3 2 14 13 44 -51 26
19 Troyes 38 4 12 22 45 81 19 1 11 7 19 30 19 3 1 15 26 51 -36 24
20 Angers SCO 38 4 6 28 33 81 19 3 3 13 20 36 19 1 3 15 13 45 -48 18

Reims:
Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Rennes 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
2 Monaco 1 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3
3 Brest 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
4 Olympique Marseille 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Toulouse 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
6 Strasbourg 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
7 Montpellier 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
8 Le Havre 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
9 Nice 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
10 Lille 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
11 Paris Saint Germain 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
12 Lorient 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
13 Lens 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
14 Reims 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
15 Olympique Lyonnais 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
16 Nantes 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
17 Clermont 1 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
18 Metz 1 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 5 -4 0

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Ligue 1 is the top league in the French football league system. Seasons run from August to May with 20 teams playing a total of 380 fixtures. The team topping the league table after the final game is the champion of France, receiving the trophy L’Hexagoal. Ligue 1 is one of the top five European leagues.