Béziers v Red Star betting guide: Not much separates the two teams

Competition: France Ligue 2
Date: Fri 12.April
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade de Sauclières (12000 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Ligue 2, Béziers holding 19th place and Red Star lying 20th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Béziers and Red Star should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

Red Star play their home games on artificial turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Red Star when playing on grass are 6 wins, 7 draws and 7 defeats from 20 matches. They have scored 18 goals and conceded 20 times in these games.

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Béziers form and stats

With 1 win, 8 draws and 6 defeats from their home games, Béziers, who have the fewest points (11) at home in Ligue 2, are certainly not brimming with confidence.

In their previous game, the manager M. Chabert led his Béziers to a defeat in the Ligue 2 match away at Lorient. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stade de Sauclières. The points were shared before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Gazélec Ajaccio.

This is expected to be a close game, with Béziers perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Béziers as a small favourite), we find four games. Béziers has won 2 of these, drawn 1 and lost 1.

The lack of attacking qualities in Béziers means that they have only scored 7 goals in 15 home games, less than half a goal per match. Béziers have conceded 15 in these home matches.

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Red Star form and stats

There's been little loot from Red Star's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 15 away games. Red Star, who have the fewest points (7) away in Ligue 2, only has 0 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 7 draws. Two points from the last two away games for Red Star, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

Red Star failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Brest that ended with defeat 0-2. Before that, Red Star travelled to Orléans and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 23 similar matches played by Red Star in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for Red Star, 8 draws and 9 defeats.

The attacking power of Red Star when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored in 15 matches. As opposed to that, Red Star have seen the ball go into their own net 20 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Red Star - Béziers 0-3, played this season. Head-2-head stats last three meetings: 3 - 0 - 0 (Béziers wins - draws - Red Star wins).

Top Goalscorers

O. Abdeldjelil
4 goals
A. Nouri
3 goals / 3 assists
A. Kanté
3 goals / 2 assists

Béziers missing players

Red Star missing players

Béziers Red Star
Total Home Statistic Away Total
31 15 Played 15 31
19 7 Scored 8 21
37 15 Conceded 20 49
84% 73% Over 0.5 80% 90%
55% 47% Over 1.5 60% 68%
29% 20% Over 2.5 27% 42%
10% 7% Over 3.5 13% 19%
3% 0% Over 4.5 7% 6%
29% 40% Both teams to score 47% 35%
32% 33% Clean Sheet 20% 26%
55% 53% Failed To Score 53% 48%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Metz 31 19 8 4 49 19 15 10 2 3 27 9 16 9 6 1 22 10 30 65
2 Brest 31 16 11 4 51 30 16 10 4 2 30 15 15 6 7 2 21 15 21 59
3 Paris 31 14 11 6 29 17 15 8 6 1 18 4 16 6 5 5 11 13 12 53
4 Lorient 31 15 8 8 41 30 16 8 6 2 23 14 15 7 2 6 18 16 11 53
5 Troyes 31 15 7 9 38 25 15 9 0 6 20 14 16 6 7 3 18 11 13 52
6 Lens 30 14 7 9 39 23 15 9 4 2 24 6 15 5 3 7 15 17 16 49
7 Orléans 31 14 6 11 46 41 16 6 4 6 19 19 15 8 2 5 27 22 5 48
8 Clermont 31 11 11 9 37 26 16 5 7 4 19 14 15 6 4 5 18 12 11 44
9 Le Havre 31 10 14 7 35 31 16 7 7 2 26 20 15 3 7 5 9 11 4 44
10 Grenoble Foot 38 31 11 9 11 35 37 16 7 4 5 15 14 15 4 5 6 20 23 -2 42
11 Niort 31 9 11 11 27 32 15 5 6 4 15 14 16 4 5 7 12 18 -5 38
12 Valenciennes 31 10 7 14 44 49 16 6 4 6 24 24 15 4 3 8 20 25 -5 37
13 Gazélec Ajaccio 31 9 10 12 26 43 16 5 4 7 12 20 15 4 6 5 14 23 -17 37
14 Ajaccio 31 8 11 12 27 38 15 5 7 3 16 13 16 3 4 9 11 25 -11 35
15 Auxerre 31 9 7 15 29 30 15 5 5 5 14 11 16 4 2 10 15 19 -1 34
16 Châteauroux 30 7 12 11 27 35 15 3 6 6 15 19 15 4 6 5 12 16 -8 33
17 Sochaux 31 9 6 16 20 36 15 6 2 7 11 17 16 3 4 9 9 19 -16 33
18 Nancy 31 9 5 17 29 41 15 4 2 9 11 19 16 5 3 8 18 22 -12 32
19 Béziers 31 6 9 16 19 37 15 1 8 6 7 15 16 5 1 10 12 22 -18 27
20 Red Star 31 5 8 18 21 49 16 5 1 10 13 29 15 0 7 8 8 20 -28 23

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