Pau have journeyed here for an action-packed fight versus the home side Caen. Get ready for the fixture with this in-depth Ligue 2 preview!
- Caen have the most dropped points from leading position (4) in Ligue 2
- Pau have the the worst goal difference (-8) in Ligue 2
Pau have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 800 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Caen and Pau.
Caen form and stats
As mentioned below, Caen are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 Ligue 2 games. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Caen after consecutive victories at their own ground.
The Caen coach Moulin and his side return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Paris (placed 13th). The Caen goalkeeper Mandrea was crucial in the match against Paris last time out, making seven saves.
Previous to that game, a home match hosting Guingamp in a game that was won 4-1.Caen are traveling soon after this match as the Ligue 2 match at Le Havre awaits in three days.
At Stade Michel d'Ornano, Caen has the goal stats of 5-1 (for/against) from 2 league fixtures.
Pau form and stats
The Ligue 2 season is young and Pau have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far.
Pau are travelling again after losing away to Quevilly Rouen in their previous match (1-2). Midfield player D'Almeida was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.2/10. D'Almeida dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 30 successful passes (of 34 total).
Preceding that, the 0-3 home loss versus Sochaux.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Pau when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 5 matches with the visitors losing 4 times, drawing 1 and winning 0 games.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Pau as they have only managed to score 2 times from 3 away games in the league. Pau have conceded 7 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Pau have put together a streak of 4 consecutive matches without defeat (3-1-0) when playing Caen.Top Goalscorers
  A. Mendy 2 goals |  B. Jeannot 1 goals |  D. Diani 1 goals |
Caen missing players
Pau missing players
| Caen | Pau | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 7 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 60% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 60% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 20% |
| 20% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 60% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 40% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 33% | 60% |
| 4.4 | 3.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 2.3 | 3.6 |
| 4.2 | 4.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 4.7 | 4.6 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 5 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13.2 | 14 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 5.7 | 7.6 |
| 5.2 | 7 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.3 | 3 |
| 35% | 36% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 20% | 13% |
| 10.6 | 13 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 10 | 10.2 |
| 5 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 6 | 5.8 |
- All of Pau's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Caen have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Caen have scored in all their matches so far.
- Caen have scored more than double the goals of Pau.
- Caen have the most dropped points from leading position (4) in Ligue 2
- Caen have won all their matches at home so far.
- Caen have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Caen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Pau have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Pau have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Ligue 2
- Pau have the most conceded goals (7) away in Ligue 2
- Pau have the the worst goal difference (-5) away in Ligue 2
- Pau have the the worst goal difference (-8) in Ligue 2
- Pau have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Pau have yet to win a game.
| Caen | Last season | Pau | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 19 | Played | P | 19 | 38 | ||
| 13 | 9 | Won | W | 4 | 14 | ||
| 11 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 7 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Lost | L | 10 | 17 | ||
| 51 | 30 | Scored | S | 16 | 41 | ||
| 42 | 18 | Conceded | C | 29 | 49 | ||
| 95% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 95% | 97% | ||
| 74% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 68% | 68% | ||
| 39% | 47% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 47% | 47% | ||
| 24% | 21% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 16% | 16% | ||
| 11% | 5% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 11% | 8% | ||
| 50% | 47% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 47% | ||
| 26% | 32% | Clean Sheets | C S | 11% | 24% | ||
| 29% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 42% | 32% | ||
| 4.7 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 4.2 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 6 | ||
| 9.5 | 10.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.6 | 8.7 | ||
| 3.7 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3.4 | ||
| 36% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 31% | ||
| 8.1 | 7.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.1 | 10.2 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 4.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Caen | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 2 | Dijon | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | Guingamp | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 4 | Amiens SC | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 5 | Bordeaux | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | Sochaux | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 7 | Metz | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 8 | Laval | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 9 | Nîmes | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 10 | Le Havre | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 11 | Bastia | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 12 | Quevilly Rouen | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 13 | Paris | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 14 | Valenciennes | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 6 |
| 15 | Grenoble Foot 38 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -2 | 6 |
| 16 | Niort | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -5 | 6 |
| 17 | Rodez | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | -2 | 5 |
| 18 | Annecy | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 2 |
| 19 | Pau | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -8 | 2 |
| 20 | Saint-Étienne | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -7 | 0 |
