Paris favourites for feisty fight facing Pau

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Competition: France Ligue 2
Competition: Tue 31.January
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Charléty (20000 seats)

This is Ligue 2 and Paris - Pau. In this preview and prediction you'll get stats, results, analysis, trends and news!

Insights:
  • Paris have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Pau haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

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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Paris form and stats

Paris's results here at Stade Charléty in the Ligue 2 have been very modest with 2 victories, 3 draws and 4 defeats.

Paris are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-3 away versus Quevilly Rouen. Defender Lefort got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.54/10. Lefort served one assist, hit one key pass and won 6 of 6 duels.

In the game before, a nice away win at Chamalieres. A Coupe de France match. The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Paris handle that role? We have found 13 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats.

The manager Laurey will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Le Havre in only three days.

Paris aren't scoring a lot here at Stade Charléty in the league, with only {8 goals} from 9 games. Paris have conceded 13 in these home matches.

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Pau form and stats

Pau have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Ligue 2, after 2-3-5 (10 played). The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Pau have lost on their last two travels.

Pau's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Annecy that finished 2-2. A comeback secured a 90 minute draw in the match against Annecy. Pau were trailing 0-2 but refused to surrender and clawed their way back to 2-2, with Boli scoring the equalizer. Koffi was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.35. The defender Koffi hit seven key passes and won 10 of 12 duels.

A defeat, in the Coupe de France away at Lille, before that. Pau are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 5 wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats. From a total of 16 matches.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Bordeaux in just three days.

The attacking power of Pau when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 10 league matches away. Pau have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Pau - Paris 0-1 was the result in these contenders' latest h2h match, played this season. Data for the former ten meetings involving these two sides are: five wins for Paris, three draws and two wins for Pau. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: eight games.

Top Goalscorers

ParisM. Guilavogui
M. Guilavogui
6 goals
PauM. Bassouamina
M. Bassouamina
5 goals
PauH. Saivet
H. Saivet
4 goals

Paris missing players

Pau missing players

Paris Pau
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 9 3 Played P 4 10 20
7 2 1 Won W 1 2 5
6 3 1 Drew D 1 3 8
7 4 1 Lost L 2 5 7
18 8 3 Scored S 4 8 18
22 13 3 Conceded C 7 13 24
80% 78% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
60% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 70% 60%
40% 56% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 30% 40%
15% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 10% 20%
5% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 67% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 45%
40% 22% 33% Clean Sheets C S 25% 20% 30%
30% 33% 33% Failed to Score F T 25% 30% 35%
 
4.5 4.7 6 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4 4.7
5 5.8 5.7 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.1 4.5
1.8 1.7 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.4 2
6 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
7.8 7.4 6.3 Shots (avg) S ( 6.2 6.6 8.4
3.3 3 2.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 2.8 3.5
27% 30% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 29% 26%
 
7.7 7.7 6.7 Shots against (avg) S A 11.5 12.3 10.1
3 3.3 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.9 4.2
Key stats in Ligue 2 this season:
  • Paris have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Pau haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Le Havre 20 12 7 1 30 8 10 7 3 0 16 4 10 5 4 1 14 4 22 43
2 Bordeaux 20 10 6 4 28 14 10 6 3 1 14 5 10 4 3 3 14 9 14 36
3 Sochaux 20 10 3 7 30 19 10 6 2 2 17 8 10 4 1 5 13 11 11 33
4 Metz 20 9 5 6 32 23 10 5 3 2 15 10 10 4 2 4 17 13 9 32
5 Bastia 20 9 4 7 19 21 10 6 1 3 9 6 10 3 3 4 10 15 -2 31
6 Amiens SC 20 8 6 6 23 21 10 5 3 2 13 8 10 3 3 4 10 13 2 30
7 Grenoble Foot 38 20 8 6 6 20 18 10 5 2 3 10 8 10 3 4 3 10 10 2 30
8 Caen 20 7 8 5 23 20 10 5 4 1 14 6 10 2 4 4 9 14 3 29
9 Quevilly Rouen 20 7 7 6 25 24 10 4 4 2 17 13 10 3 3 4 8 11 1 28
10 Guingamp 20 7 6 7 25 27 10 2 3 5 10 15 10 5 3 2 15 12 -2 27
11 Paris 20 7 6 7 18 22 9 2 3 4 8 13 11 5 3 3 10 9 -4 27
12 Valenciennes 20 6 8 6 18 19 10 4 6 0 14 10 10 2 2 6 4 9 -1 26
13 Annecy 20 6 7 7 20 19 10 4 2 4 8 9 10 2 5 3 12 10 1 25
14 Laval 20 7 3 10 25 31 10 4 1 5 16 16 10 3 2 5 9 15 -6 24
15 Pau 20 5 8 7 18 24 10 3 5 2 10 11 10 2 3 5 8 13 -6 23
16 Dijon 20 5 6 9 21 25 11 4 4 3 14 13 9 1 2 6 7 12 -4 21
17 Rodez 20 4 7 9 17 26 10 1 4 5 8 16 10 3 3 4 9 10 -9 19
18 Nîmes 20 5 4 11 20 30 10 5 1 4 10 10 10 0 3 7 10 20 -10 19
19 Saint-Étienne 20 5 6 9 28 34 10 3 3 4 14 17 10 2 3 5 14 17 -6 18
20 Niort 20 4 5 11 17 32 10 3 2 5 8 14 10 1 3 6 9 18 -15 17

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.