Evenly matched teams: Amiens SC vs Grenoble Foot 38 match preview

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Competition: France Ligue 2
Competition: Sat 11.December
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Crédit Agricole de la Licorne (12097 seats)

Amiens SC are trusting their home fans to help them to win this match with Grenoble Foot 38. Who wins at Stade Crédit Agricole de la Licorne?

Insights:
  • Amiens SC have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Grenoble Foot 38 have the fewest scored goals (3) away in Ligue 2

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Amiens SC form and stats

Amiens SC have played 9 Ligue 2 games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-4-3 (wins-draws-losses).

Amiens's last game was hosting Dunkerque (placed 19th) and winning 3-0. The forward Aliou Badji was declared "man of the match" for Amiens with a rating of 8.7/10. Badji scored two goals, served one assist and hit two key passes.

In the preceding match a 4-1 victory visiting Cambrai.

This is expected to be a close game, with Amiens SC perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Amiens SC as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Amiens SC has won four of these, drawn four and lost three.

Amiens are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 9 games. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Amiens SC are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stade Crédit Agricole de la Licorne in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 9 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Grenoble Foot 38 form and stats

Grenoble Foot 38 have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Ligue 2, after 1-2-5 (8 played).

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Ligue 2 home defeat versus Le Havre with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Mamadou Diallo, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.43. Diallo served one assist, hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

It was a Coupe de France defeat before that one as the away game against Andrezieux wasn't a success with a 0-3 loss.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Grenoble Foot 38 playing away and similar expectations, we found 15 relevant matches. Results were four Grenoble Foot 38 wins, six draws and five defeats.

Grenoble are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 3 goals from 8 away games. Grenoble have conceded 11 goals in these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's four Amiens victories, two draws and three Grenoble Foot 38 wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Grenoble Foot 38Y. Ravet
Y. Ravet
4 goals
Amiens SCA. Lusamba
A. Lusamba
3 goals
Amiens SCT. Arokodare
T. Arokodare
3 goals

Amiens SC missing players

Grenoble Foot 38 missing players

Amiens SC Grenoble Foot 38
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 9 3 Played P 3 8 17
3 2 0 Won W 1 1 6
9 4 1 Drew D 1 2 3
5 3 2 Lost L 1 5 8
18 10 3 Scored S 1 3 16
17 8 6 Conceded C 1 11 21
71% 67% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 88% 88%
59% 56% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 38% 59%
41% 56% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 41%
24% 22% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 18%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 12%
41% 33% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 35%
47% 56% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 25% 35%
41% 44% 33% Failed to Score F T 67% 62% 41%
 
4.2 5 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 2 2.4 3.8
5.5 5 4 Corners against (avg) C A 6 4.9 4.4
1.9 1.6 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 1.4 1.6
3 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
7.6 7.3 8.3 Shots (avg) S ( 8.3 6.5 7.4
2.8 3.1 2.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 2.4 2.9
38% 36% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 8% 16% 32%
 
9.4 8.2 9.7 Shots against (avg) S A 12.3 13 11.5
3.4 3.2 4.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 4.8 4.2
Key stats in Ligue 2 this season:
  • Amiens SC have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Amiens SC have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Grenoble Foot 38 have scored away.
  • Grenoble Foot 38 have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Grenoble Foot 38 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Grenoble Foot 38 have the fewest scored goals (3) away in Ligue 2
  • Grenoble Foot 38 have the the worst goal difference (-8) away in Ligue 2
  • Grenoble Foot 38 have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Toulouse 16 9 6 1 36 14 8 5 2 1 22 9 8 4 4 0 14 5 22 33
2 Ajaccio 17 9 5 3 18 8 9 6 2 1 10 2 8 3 3 2 8 6 10 32
3 Sochaux 17 9 4 4 17 13 9 5 2 2 8 5 8 4 2 2 9 8 4 31
4 Auxerre 17 8 6 3 28 20 9 5 3 1 18 7 8 3 3 2 10 13 8 30
5 Paris 17 9 3 5 20 15 8 4 3 1 10 6 9 5 0 4 10 9 5 30
6 Le Havre 17 7 8 2 17 10 9 4 4 1 9 5 8 3 4 1 8 5 7 29
7 Rodez 17 7 4 6 19 16 8 3 3 2 8 6 9 4 1 4 11 10 3 25
8 Pau 17 7 3 7 18 18 9 6 1 2 12 5 8 1 2 5 6 13 0 24
9 Niort 16 6 3 7 16 18 7 3 1 3 8 7 9 3 2 4 8 11 -2 21
10 Guingamp 17 5 6 6 21 24 8 3 2 3 13 13 9 2 4 3 8 11 -3 21
11 Grenoble Foot 38 17 6 3 8 16 21 9 5 1 3 13 10 8 1 2 5 3 11 -5 21
12 Nîmes 17 5 5 7 19 21 8 2 3 3 8 10 9 3 2 4 11 11 -2 20
13 Quevilly Rouen 17 5 5 7 16 22 8 2 3 3 7 10 9 3 2 4 9 12 -6 20
14 Valenciennes 17 5 5 7 13 22 8 2 1 5 7 15 9 3 4 2 6 7 -9 20
15 Dijon 17 6 1 10 19 25 9 4 1 4 12 12 8 2 0 6 7 13 -6 19
16 Amiens SC 17 3 9 5 18 17 9 2 4 3 10 8 8 1 5 2 8 9 1 18
17 Caen 17 4 6 7 18 19 9 2 1 6 10 11 8 2 5 1 8 8 -1 18
18 Bastia 17 4 6 7 14 17 8 2 6 0 7 3 9 2 0 7 7 14 -3 18
19 Dunkerque 17 4 4 9 14 22 9 2 3 4 6 9 8 2 1 5 8 13 -8 16
20 Nancy 17 2 6 9 13 28 8 1 3 4 5 14 9 1 3 5 8 14 -15 12

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Ligue 2 is the second highest division in French football. Most games are played at Fridays and Mondays, allowing the top league Ligue 1 “ownership” of the weekend days. 20 teams play 380 fixtures in total, creating a league table where the top three teams promote and the bottom three relegate.