Nancy will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today's opponents. The home side are currently 3 points behind Valenciennes.
Nancy and Valenciennes 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.
Nancy form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Stade Marcel Picot as Nancy have scored 13 goals to get 20 points from 10 games. The overall stats in the Ligue 2 are 5-5-0 (wins-draws-losses). In general it's been a long time since Nancy tasted defeat here at Stade Marcel Picot, as they have taken at least one point from their last ten home games.
The home team returns to Stade Marcel Picot after being equal after 90 minutes with Auxerre (placed 14th) on their last time out; the Ligue 2 game ended 0-0. Before that, Nancy had a home game versus Chateauroux which ended with a victory 2-1.
The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Nancy matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats (from two games).
The Nancy fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 13 in 10 matches. Nancy have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 5 goals.
Valenciennes form and stats
The visitors are W3-D3-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Ligue 2.
The Valenciennes goalkeeper Jerome Prior is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 228 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Valenciennes are travelling after their nice 3-0 home win in the Ligue 2 against Lorient (placed 2nd). A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Paris.
As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Valenciennes playing away, we found five games. Results were 0 away wins, 1 draw and 4 home wins.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Valenciennes as they have only managed to score 5 times from 9 away games in the league. It's not easy to score on Valenciennes as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Valenciennes - Nancy 1-1 entered in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 3 Nancy victories, 4 draws and 3 Valenciennes wins. 1 of these game ended with three goals or more, 9 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Chevalier 9 goals |   M. Gueye 4 goals |  S. Ciss 3 goals |
Nancy missing players
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| Nancy | Valenciennes | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 12 | 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 19 | 13 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 15 |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 11 |
| 74% | 70% | 33% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 33% | 78% | 84% |
| 68% | 70% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 32% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 11% | 11% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 53% | 50% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 22% | 21% |
| 37% | 50% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 44% | 53% |
| 37% | 30% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 56% | 42% |
| 5.7 | 7 | 7 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.7 | 4.2 |
| 4 | 3.6 | 4.3 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 7.7 | 6.6 | 5.2 |
| 2 | 2 | 2.3 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 2.4 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 181 | 113 | 25 | Total Shots | T S | 13 | 67 | 189 |
| 74 | 48 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 22 | 59 |
| 26% | 27% | 12% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 23% | 25% |
- Nancy have not yet lost a game at home.
- Nancy have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Nancy have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Nancy have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Valenciennes have scored away.
- Nancy have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Valenciennes has the fewest conceded goals (11)
- Valenciennes has the fewest matches over the total-line (2)
- Valenciennes has the most matches under the total-line (16)
- Valenciennes have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 | Lens | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 40 |
| 2 | Lorient | 19 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 30 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 39 |
| 3 | Troyes | 19 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 38 |
| 4 | Ajaccio | 19 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 23 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 33 |
| 5 | Valenciennes | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 30 |
| 6 | Clermont | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 30 |
| 7 | Le Havre | 19 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 29 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 29 |
| 8 | Guingamp | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 32 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 27 |
| 9 | Sochaux | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 27 |
| 10 | Nancy | 19 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 27 |
| 11 | Grenoble Foot 38 | 19 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 19 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 26 |
| 12 | Rodez | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 23 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 14 | -3 | 21 |
| 13 | Caen | 19 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 23 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 11 | -4 | 21 |
| 14 | Auxerre | 19 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 20 |
| 15 | Le Mans | 19 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 23 | 32 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 18 | -9 | 20 |
| 16 | Chambly | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 25 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | -10 | 20 |
| 17 | Chateauroux | 19 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 25 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -13 | 18 |
| 18 | Niort | 19 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -8 | 17 |
| 19 | Paris | 19 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 28 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 11 | -18 | 15 |
| 20 | Orleans | 19 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 28 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -13 | 13 |