A demanding season for Niort so far, and you could say the same about Dijon. The bottom dwellers would do anything for some crucial points here.
- Niort have the fewest scored goals (8) in Ligue 2
- Dijon have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Niort and Dijon 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.
Niort form and stats
Niort's struggle is real here at Stade René Gaillard with only 4 points collected from 6 Ligue 2 games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-1-4.
Niort haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 487 minutes ago. Boutobba scored that one.
The Niort crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-3 to Grenoble Foot 38 here at Stade René Gaillard. Passi, defender, was given a rating of 6.95/10 in that game, top of the team. Passi won 5 of 5 duels.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Caen (0-1).The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Niort have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 15 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 4 and lost 7.
It should be considered that a peek at the 10 latest league matches reveals that 8 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored a goal).
Niort have scored {3 league goals} here from 6 matches, not a lot. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Niort defense is not exactly impregnable. 10 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Dijon form and stats
The visitors are W1-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Ligue 2. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Daf, the Dijon manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
Dijon's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Quevilly Rouen that finished 0-0. Coulibaly, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.65. Coulibaly won 8 of 9 duels.
A 1-2 defeat away at Amiens SC before that.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Dijon in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for Dijon, 4 draws and 5 defeats.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Dijon as they have only managed to score 4 times from 5 away games in the league. 6 goals have been conceded by Dijon in these games.
Head 2 Head
Dijon have avoided defeat in the last 6 games (3-3-0) against Niort.Top Goalscorers
  B. Boutobba 5 goals |
Niort missing players
Dijon missing players
| Niort | Dijon | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 12 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 22 | 10 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 14 |
| 92% | 83% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 80% | 75% |
| 58% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 60% | 67% |
| 58% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 60% | 50% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 60% | 50% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 25% |
| 67% | 67% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 50% |
| 3.7 | 3.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2.8 | 3.5 |
| 4.1 | 4.2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5.6 | 5 |
| 2.1 | 2.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3.4 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 7.9 | 8 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| 3.2 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| 21% | 17% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 22% | 26% |
| 10.3 | 10 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 11.2 | 8.8 |
| 4.6 | 4.8 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
- Dijon have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Dijon have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Niort have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Niort have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Ligue 2
- Niort have the fewest scored goals (8) in Ligue 2
- Niort have the the worst goal difference (-14) in Ligue 2
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Le Havre | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 23 |
| 2 | Sochaux | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 23 |
| 3 | Bordeaux | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 23 |
| 4 | Amiens SC | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 23 |
| 5 | Valenciennes | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 22 |
| 6 | Grenoble Foot 38 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 19 |
| 7 | Guingamp | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 18 |
| 8 | Caen | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 18 |
| 9 | Paris | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 16 |
| 10 | Bastia | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -4 | 16 |
| 11 | Metz | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 15 |
| 12 | Quevilly Rouen | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 14 |
| 13 | Pau | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -5 | 14 |
| 14 | Laval | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -1 | 13 |
| 15 | Dijon | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 13 |
| 16 | Annecy | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | -2 | 12 |
| 17 | Rodez | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | -5 | 12 |
| 18 | Nîmes | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -5 | 11 |
| 19 | Saint-Étienne | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -4 | 8 |
| 20 | Niort | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -14 | 8 |
