Evenly matched teams: Paris vs Ajaccio match preview

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Competition: France Ligue 2
Competition: Mon 07.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Charléty (20000 seats)

The Paris & Ajaccio bosses Laurey and Pantaloni are both dreading and feeling excited about this important game in the top part of the Ligue 2 table.

Insights:
  • Paris is in the best form (4-2-0) in Ligue 2
  • Ajaccio have the fewest conceded goals (10) in Ligue 2

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Ajaccio, who are travelling more than 1100 kilometers to play this game.

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!

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Paris form and stats

All-inclusive Ligue 2 results playing at home this season for Paris are 5-4-1 (wins-draws-losses). Paris haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Pau, 114 days ago.

Paris enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Auxerre's place. The match ended 2-1 with Guilavogui (2) scoring. Guilavogui (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.64/10. Guilavogui scored two goals and hit two key passes.

Before that, Paris played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Dunkerque.

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 Paris have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 13 matches with the results: Won five, drawn four and lost four.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Ligue 2 game versus Quevilly Rouen in only four days. This game is also played here at Stade Charléty.

Paris has scored 13 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. Paris are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stade Charléty in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 10 matches.

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Ajaccio form and stats

5-3-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Ajaccio, who have the fewest conceded goals (10) in Ligue 2, in their Ligue 2 matches away.

Nouri was the last player to score for the away team. Ajaccio haven't scored a league goal in the last 228 minutes.

Ajaccio played 0-0 against Auxerre in their previous match. Laci got a match rating of 7.44 in that game, top player of the team. Laci hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

A 0-2 defeat away at Caen before that.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Ajaccio playing away and similar expectations, we found 14 relevant matches. Results were five Ajaccio wins, five draws and four defeats.

A new game in only four days for Ajaccio, the Ligue 2 home match versus Guingamp. Busy days.

The visitors have scored 10 goals from 11 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's not easy to score on Ajaccio as they have only conceded 8 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Here's the end result when the participants played each other previously this campaign; Ajaccio - Paris 1-0. Stats for the preceeding ten meetings involving these two sides are: one win for Paris, five draws and four wins for Ajaccio. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: eight games.

Top Goalscorers

ParisM. Guilavogui
M. Guilavogui
8 goals
AjaccioR. Nouri
R. Nouri
6 goals
AjaccioG. Courtet
G. Courtet
4 goals

Paris missing players

Ajaccio missing players

Paris Ajaccio
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 10 2 Played P 2 11 22
12 5 0 Won W 0 5 12
5 4 2 Drew D 2 3 6
5 1 0 Lost L 0 3 4
30 13 3 Scored S 2 10 21
20 8 3 Conceded C 2 8 10
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 91% 82%
59% 60% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 55% 41%
36% 30% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 9% 9%
23% 20% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 9% 9%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
45% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 18% 14%
36% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 55% 68%
18% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 36% 36%
 
4.9 5.3 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.5 4.1
4.2 3.6 8 Corners against (avg) C A 8 4.7 3.7
1.4 1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5 2.4 2.3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
9.4 9.3 7 Shots (avg) S ( 5.5 5.5 7.7
4.7 4.8 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 2.1 3
29% 27% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 43% 32%
 
8.3 8.2 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 7.5 8.2 6
3 3.1 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.4 2.9
Key stats in Ligue 2 this season:
  • Ajaccio have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Ajaccio have the fewest conceded goals (10) in Ligue 2
  • Ajaccio have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Ligue 2
  • Ajaccio have the most clean sheets (15) in Ligue 2
  • Paris haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Paris is in the best form (4-2-0) 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 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

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.