Nîmes manager Usaï looking for three points in Dunkerque showdown

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Competition: France Ligue 2
Competition: Sat 05.February
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade des Costières (18482 seats)

In total; 22 matches are finished and Nîmes are 14 points on top of Dunkerque. What will the score be?

Insights:
  • Nîmes have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Dunkerque have the fewest scored goals (16) in Ligue 2

It's quite the trip for Dunkerque when visiting Nîmes as the cities are 1000 kilometers apart.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Nîmes form and stats

The story so far in the Ligue 2 for Nîmes at their home stadium (Stade des Costières) is 4 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats.

It's back home for Nîmes, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Pau away with the result 3-0. Benrahou, Koné and Ómarsson found the net in that victory. The forward Benrahou outperformed all the other players in that match and received a match rating of 8.54 out of 10. Benrahou scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 25 successful passes (of 31 total).

Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Valenciennes.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Nîmes handle that role? We have found ten games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, four draws and two defeats.

Nîmes are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 11 games. Nîmes's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 14 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Dunkerque form and stats

Dunkerque have only collected 7 points from their away games in the Ligue 2, after 2-1-7 (10 played). Bitter travels for Dunkerque as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Valenciennes match.

There might be some fixture complaints from Dunkerque as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, 0-2 against Niort. Midfield player Pierre was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.02/10. Pierre had 36 successful passes (of 45 total).

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Paris.

We have checked recent matches where Dunkerque have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 16 games were three victories, three draws and ten defeats.

The visitors have scored 9 goals from 10 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Dunkerque have conceded 17 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Nîmes and Dunkerque have met before this season: Dunkerque - Nîmes 0-2.

Top Goalscorers

NîmesY. Benrahou
Y. Benrahou
8 goals
DunkerqueM. Tchokounté
M. Tchokounté
7 goals
NîmesM. Koné
M. Koné
6 goals

Nîmes missing players

Dunkerque missing players

Nîmes Dunkerque
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 11 4 Played P 5 10 22
9 4 3 Won W 1 2 4
5 3 1 Drew D 1 1 6
8 4 0 Lost L 3 7 12
29 13 6 Scored S 5 9 16
26 14 3 Conceded C 10 17 29
91% 82% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
77% 73% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 73%
59% 64% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 80% 60% 32%
14% 9% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 20% 9%
5% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
55% 64% 75% BTTS BTTS 60% 50% 41%
27% 18% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 18%
27% 36% 25% Failed to Score F T 40% 50% 50%
 
4.8 5.8 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 2.2 3.2 3.6
4.8 3.9 4.8 Corners against (avg) C A 7 6.4 4.5
2.3 2.3 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.6 2.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
8.4 9.4 8.8 Shots (avg) S ( 5.8 6.1 7.3
3.9 4.1 3.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.6 2.7 2.8
34% 29% 46% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 33% 26%
 
11.2 10.1 12.5 Shots against (avg) S A 12.2 11.3 9.9
4.2 3.6 3.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.2 5.5 4.6
Key stats in Ligue 2 this season:
  • Dunkerque have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Dunkerque have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Dunkerque have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Ligue 2
  • Dunkerque have the fewest scored goals (16) in Ligue 2
  • Dunkerque have the most conceded goals in the second half (23) in Ligue 2
  • Dunkerque haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Nîmes have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Nîmes have won significantly more corners at home than away.

  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 22 11 9 2 45 19 11 6 4 1 28 11 11 5 5 1 17 8 26 42
2 Ajaccio 22 12 6 4 21 10 11 7 3 1 11 2 11 5 3 3 10 8 11 42
3 Paris 22 12 5 5 30 20 10 5 4 1 13 8 12 7 1 4 17 12 10 41
4 Sochaux 22 11 7 4 24 18 11 6 3 2 12 8 11 5 4 2 12 10 6 40
5 Auxerre 22 10 7 5 34 25 11 5 3 3 21 12 11 5 4 2 13 13 9 37
6 Niort 21 10 4 7 27 21 10 6 1 3 15 8 11 4 3 4 12 13 6 34
7 Le Havre 22 8 10 4 22 16 12 4 5 3 9 7 10 4 5 1 13 9 6 34
8 Nîmes 22 9 5 8 29 26 11 4 3 4 13 14 11 5 2 4 16 12 3 32
9 Dijon 22 9 2 11 28 29 12 5 2 5 16 16 10 4 0 6 12 13 -1 29
10 Pau 22 8 4 10 24 27 12 7 1 4 17 10 10 1 3 6 7 17 -3 28
11 Rodez 22 7 7 8 20 23 10 3 4 3 8 8 12 4 3 5 12 15 -3 28
12 Guingamp 22 6 8 8 24 31 10 4 3 3 15 14 12 2 5 5 9 17 -7 26
13 Amiens SC 22 5 10 7 26 21 12 4 4 4 17 10 10 1 6 3 9 11 5 25
14 Caen 22 6 7 9 26 26 12 4 1 7 14 13 10 2 6 2 12 13 0 25
15 Valenciennes 22 6 7 9 23 31 11 3 2 6 15 21 11 3 5 3 8 10 -8 25
16 Quevilly Rouen 22 6 7 9 21 30 10 2 5 3 10 13 12 4 2 6 11 17 -9 25
17 Bastia 22 5 9 8 20 21 11 3 8 0 12 5 11 2 1 8 8 16 -1 24
18 Grenoble Foot 38 21 6 4 11 17 27 10 5 1 4 13 11 11 1 3 7 4 16 -10 22
19 Dunkerque 22 4 6 12 16 29 12 2 5 5 7 12 10 2 1 7 9 17 -13 18
20 Nancy 22 3 6 13 17 44 10 2 3 5 7 18 12 1 3 8 10 26 -27 15

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Read more about Ligue 2

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.