Nîmes look to Stade des Costières supporters for inspiration before Grenoble Foot 38 match

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Competition: France Ligue 2
Competition: Sat 19.February
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade des Costières (18482 seats)

Nîmes have 32 points running out as the home side. Grenoble Foot 38 have brought back 25 points being the away side. Will this be a home win?

Insights:
  • Nîmes have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Grenoble Foot 38 have the fewest points (6) away in Ligue 2

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Ligue 2 game only four days ago.

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Nîmes form and stats

4 victories, 3 draws and 5 defeats. That’s what Nîmes have to build on here at Stade des Costières in the Ligue 2.

Nîmes are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 180 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Omarsson).

Nîmes are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-4 away versus Caen. Defender Ueda got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.01/10. Ueda hit one key pass and won 1 of 2 duels.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Dunkerque (0-1).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Nîmes have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eight games) they have won three times, drawn four and lost one.

The Nîmes fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 13 in 12 matches. Nîmes have conceded 15 in these home matches.

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Grenoble Foot 38 form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Grenoble Foot 38 so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-8 (win-draw-lose).

Grenoble Foot 38 go into this game after a win, the home game against Niort that ended 1-0. Nestor was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.75. The defender Nestor scored one goal and won 1 of 4 duels.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-3 defeat against Sochaux.

Grenoble are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, four draws and five defeats. From a total of twelve matches.

Grenoble Foot 38 are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 4 goals from 12 away games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 17 goals have been conceded by Grenoble in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two teams in this fixture also encountered each other earlier on this match year: Grenoble Foot 38 - Nîmes 2-1. As for the last four games between these two teams, there's one Nîmes victory, zero draws and three Grenoble Foot 38 wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

NîmesY. Benrahou
Y. Benrahou
8 goals
NîmesM. Koné
M. Koné
6 goals
NîmesN. Eliasson
N. Eliasson
4 goals

Nîmes missing players

Grenoble Foot 38 missing players

Nîmes Grenoble Foot 38
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
24 12 4 Played P 4 12 24
9 4 3 Won W 1 1 7
5 3 0 Drew D 1 3 4
10 5 1 Lost L 2 8 13
29 13 6 Scored S 2 4 19
31 15 4 Conceded C 5 17 31
92% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 83% 88%
75% 67% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 25% 33% 50%
58% 58% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 25% 38%
17% 8% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 17% 21%
4% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 17% 12%
50% 58% 75% BTTS BTTS 25% 25% 33%
25% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 25% 33%
33% 42% 25% Failed to Score F T 50% 67% 46%
 
4.7 5.8 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.2 2.6 3.9
5 4.2 6 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 4.1 4.1
2.3 2.4 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.8 1.9
3 1 1 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
8.2 9.2 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 6.7 7.2
3.8 4 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 2.5 2.9
32% 27% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 13% 27%
 
11.3 9.9 12.8 Shots against (avg) S A 10 11.8 11.1
4.4 3.5 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.2 4.6 4.1
Key stats in Ligue 2 this season:
  • Grenoble Foot 38 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Grenoble Foot 38 have the fewest points (6) away in Ligue 2
  • Grenoble Foot 38 have the fewest scored goals (4) away in Ligue 2
  • Grenoble Foot 38 have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Nîmes have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Grenoble Foot 38 have scored 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 24 13 9 2 52 21 12 7 4 1 32 12 12 6 5 1 20 9 31 48
2 Paris 24 14 5 5 35 20 12 7 4 1 18 8 12 7 1 4 17 12 15 47
3 Sochaux 24 12 8 4 28 20 12 6 4 2 13 9 12 6 4 2 15 11 8 44
4 Ajaccio 24 12 6 6 21 13 12 7 3 2 11 3 12 5 3 4 10 10 8 42
5 Auxerre 24 10 9 5 36 27 12 5 4 3 22 13 12 5 5 2 14 14 9 39
6 Le Havre 24 8 11 5 24 20 13 4 5 4 11 11 11 4 6 1 13 9 4 35
7 Niort 24 10 5 9 28 25 11 6 2 3 15 8 13 4 3 6 13 17 3 35
8 Nîmes 24 9 5 10 29 31 12 4 3 5 13 15 12 5 2 5 16 16 -2 32
9 Pau 24 9 5 10 26 28 12 7 1 4 17 10 12 2 4 6 9 18 -2 32
10 Guingamp 24 7 9 8 26 32 11 4 4 3 16 15 13 3 5 5 10 17 -6 30
11 Amiens SC 24 6 11 7 30 23 13 5 4 4 20 11 11 1 7 3 10 12 7 29
12 Caen 24 7 8 9 31 27 13 5 1 7 18 13 11 2 7 2 13 14 4 29
13 Dijon 24 9 2 13 29 34 13 5 2 6 16 17 11 4 0 7 13 17 -5 29
14 Rodez 24 7 8 9 20 25 11 3 5 3 8 8 13 4 3 6 12 17 -5 29
15 Bastia 24 6 10 8 25 24 12 3 9 0 13 6 12 3 1 8 12 18 1 28
16 Quevilly Rouen 24 7 7 10 22 33 11 3 5 3 11 13 13 4 2 7 11 20 -11 28
17 Valenciennes 24 6 8 10 24 34 12 3 2 7 16 24 12 3 6 3 8 10 -10 26
18 Grenoble Foot 38 24 7 4 13 19 31 12 6 1 5 15 14 12 1 3 8 4 17 -12 25
19 Dunkerque 24 6 6 12 19 29 13 3 5 5 9 12 11 3 1 7 10 17 -10 24
20 Nancy 24 3 8 13 19 46 11 2 4 5 8 19 13 1 4 8 11 27 -27 17

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