Match preview Ligue 2: Niort - Lorient at Stade René Gaillard

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Competition: France Ligue 2
Date: Mon 06.May
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stade René Gaillard (11352 seats)

Niort will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 15 points behind Lorient.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Lorient have a different surface at their stadium (artificial turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 19-6-17 (win-draw-loss) from 42 matches.

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Niort form and stats

Niort have played 17 games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-8-4 (wins-draws-losses). With nine home games in a row without a win, the Niort fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the Valenciennes game long ago, can be stopped today.

Niort are returning here after visiting Valenciennes in a Ligue 2 game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Preceding that game was the home draw versus Gazelec Ajaccio that ended 1-1.

Niort are traveling soon after this match as the Ligue 2 match at Brest awaits in four days.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Niort here at Stade René Gaillard, with less than one goal per game on average (16 from 17 games). Niort are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stade René Gaillard, averaging less than one per game. The total is 15 from 17 matches.

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Lorient form and stats

8 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses. That’s the product of Lorient playing as the away team this season.

Lorient delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Auxerre in their previous match; a Ligue 2 game. Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Lens.

After this away game Lorient return home for a Ligue 2 game against Sochaux. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Lorient have scored 21 goals on their travels this season, 17 away games. Lorient have conceded 18 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Lorient - Niort 1-1 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last four meetings: 1 - 2 - 1 (Niort wins - draws - Lorient wins).

Top Goalscorers

P. Hamel
16 goals / 2 assists
A. Claude Maurice
14 goals / 2 assists
A. Dona N'Doh
12 goals / 1 assists

Niort missing players

Lorient missing players

Niort Lorient
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
35 17 5 Played 5 17 35
10 5 1 Won 3 8 16
13 8 2 Drew 1 3 10
12 4 2 Lost 1 6 9
31 16 4 Scored 4 21 46
36 15 7 Conceded 3 18 37
86% 88% 100% Over 0.5 80% 88% 86%
57% 59% 80% Over 1.5 40% 59% 63%
29% 18% 40% Over 2.5 20% 47% 51%
9% 6% 0% Over 3.5 0% 24% 29%
9% 6% 0% Over 4.5 0% 12% 9%
43% 47% 60% BTTS 20% 41% 51%
34% 35% 20% Clean Sheets 60% 41% 34%
37% 29% 20% Failed To Score 40% 29% 29%
 
4.1 4.2 3.6 Corners For (avg) 3.6 3.5 4.3
5.3 5.9 6.6 Corners Against (avg) 4.8 4.6 4.3
2.1 1.6 1.4 Yellow Cards (avg) 2.4 2.6 2.3
4 1 0 Red Cards 0 1 3

Niort
All Coupe de la Ligue Coupe de France Ligue 2 Club Friendlies
All Home Away
15-03-19 L2 Niort 0 - 3 Metz
29-03-19 L2 Niort 0 - 1 Sochaux
05-04-19 L2 Le Havre 0 - 0 Niort
12-04-19 L2 Niort 0 - 0 Auxerre
19-04-19 L2 Châteauroux 2 - 1 Niort
23-04-19 L2 Niort 1 - 1 Gazelec Ajaccio
26-04-19 L2 Valenciennes 1 - 2 Niort
06-05-19 L2 Niort 18:45 Lorient
10-05-19 L2 Brest 18:45 Niort
17-05-19 L2 Niort - Red Star
Lorient
All Coupe de la Ligue Coupe de France Ligue 1 Ligue 2 Club Friendlies
All Home Away
16-03-19 L2 Lorient 1 - 1 Brest
31-03-19 L2 Metz 2 - 1 Lorient
05-04-19 L2 Lorient 3 - 1 Beziers
15-04-19 L2 Paris 2 - 2 Lorient
19-04-19 L2 Lorient 0 - 3 Troyes
23-04-19 L2 Lens 0 - 1 Lorient
29-04-19 L2 Lorient 2 - 2 Auxerre
06-05-19 L2 Niort 18:45 Lorient
10-05-19 L2 Lorient 18:45 Sochaux
17-05-19 L2 Le Havre - Lorient

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Metz 35 22 9 4 56 22 17 11 3 3 30 11 18 11 6 1 26 11 34 75
2 Brest 35 20 11 4 61 33 18 12 4 2 35 16 17 8 7 2 26 17 28 71
3 Troyes 35 19 7 9 45 25 17 11 0 6 23 14 18 8 7 3 22 11 20 64
4 Lorient 35 16 10 9 46 37 18 8 7 3 25 19 17 8 3 6 21 18 9 58
5 Paris 35 14 14 7 33 22 17 8 8 1 20 6 18 6 6 6 13 16 11 56
6 Lens 35 15 9 11 41 26 17 9 5 3 24 7 18 6 4 8 17 19 15 54
7 Le Havre 35 13 14 8 41 34 17 8 7 2 28 21 18 5 7 6 13 13 7 53
8 Orléans 35 15 6 14 49 47 18 7 4 7 21 21 17 8 2 7 28 26 2 51
9 Grenoble Foot 38 35 13 10 12 42 43 18 8 4 6 19 18 17 5 6 6 23 25 -1 49
10 Clermont 35 11 14 10 40 30 18 5 9 4 20 15 17 6 5 6 20 15 10 47
11 Niort 35 10 13 12 31 36 17 5 8 4 16 15 18 5 5 8 15 21 -5 43
12 Châteauroux 35 9 14 12 31 38 18 5 7 6 18 20 17 4 7 6 13 18 -7 41
13 Auxerre 35 10 9 16 32 33 17 6 5 6 15 12 18 4 4 10 17 21 -1 39
14 Valenciennes 35 10 9 16 50 57 18 6 4 8 30 32 17 4 5 8 20 25 -7 39
15 Nancy 35 11 6 18 34 45 18 6 2 10 15 22 17 5 4 8 19 23 -11 39
16 Gazélec Ajaccio 35 9 11 15 27 49 18 5 4 9 12 24 17 4 7 6 15 25 -22 38
17 Sochaux 35 10 7 18 23 40 17 6 3 8 12 20 18 4 4 10 11 20 -17 37
18 Ajaccio 35 8 12 15 28 43 17 5 7 5 17 17 18 3 5 10 11 26 -15 36
19 Béziers 35 7 10 18 29 50 17 1 9 7 9 19 18 6 1 11 20 31 -21 31
20 Red Star 35 6 9 20 26 55 18 5 2 11 15 32 17 1 7 9 11 23 -29 27

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