Valenciennes have delivered excellent football so far, sitting at 5th place in the table. Guingamp can look both ways from their 7th position.
- Valenciennes have not yet lost a game at home.
This promises to be an interesting game with lots of action and excitement as both squads are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Let's get started!
Valenciennes form and stats
When playing at home in the Ligue 2, Valenciennes have managed 3 wins, 2 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 5 games. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Valenciennes after consecutive victories at their own ground.
Valenciennes enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Paris's place. The match ended 1-0 with Diliberto scoring. Larsonneur, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 8.03 out of 10 in that game. Larsonneur topped it up with a clean sheet.
Before that, Valenciennes had a home game versus Sochaux which ended with a victory 2-1.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 Valenciennes have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 14 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 6 and lost 3.
Valenciennes have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stade du Hainaut with 8 goals in 5 league matches.
Guingamp form and stats
As the visiting team in Ligue 2 matches, Guingamp have produced an overall stat of 3-1-1 so far.
The attacking players of Guingamp have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 301 minutes.
The manager Dumont was unhappy after their last game, played at their home venue Stade du Roudourou. Guingamp suffered a 0-4 loss to Annecy (placed 13th). That defeat was their first after four consecutive league matches winning points. Guingamp lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. The attacker Courtet got a match rating of 7.35 in that game. Courtet hit the woodwork once and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Rodez.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Guingamp playing away and similar expectations, we found 13 relevant matches. Results were 3 Guingamp wins, 6 draws and 4 defeats.
As for defending, Guingamp rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 8 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Guingamp have not lost in the last 5 games (1-4-0) against Valenciennes.Top Goalscorers
  J. Livolant 6 goals |   J. Cuffaut 2 goals |
Valenciennes missing players
Guingamp missing players
| Valenciennes | Guingamp | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 10 | 17 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 8 | 15 |
| 82% | 80% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 73% |
| 45% | 60% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 60% | 64% |
| 27% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 60% | 64% |
| 18% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 40% | 36% |
| 9% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 40% | 18% |
| 36% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | 45% |
| 45% | 40% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 40% | 45% |
| 36% | 20% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 36% |
| 3 | 3.2 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 4.6 | 5.2 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.2 | 3.4 |
| 2.1 | 2.4 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 6.9 | 6.6 | 2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 9.6 | 10.1 |
| 3.2 | 3.6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4 | 4.4 |
| 31% | 44% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 50% | 35% |
| 12.5 | 12.4 | 4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.5 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| 4.6 | 5 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
- Valenciennes have not yet lost a game at home.
- Valenciennes have played more matches over 2,5 goals 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 | Bordeaux | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 23 |
| 2 | Amiens SC | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 23 |
| 3 | Le Havre | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 14 | 22 |
| 4 | Sochaux | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 19 |
| 5 | Valenciennes | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 19 |
| 6 | Caen | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 18 |
| 7 | Guingamp | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 18 |
| 8 | Grenoble Foot 38 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -1 | 16 |
| 9 | Bastia | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -4 | 16 |
| 10 | Metz | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 14 |
| 11 | Paris | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -2 | 13 |
| 12 | Quevilly Rouen | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 13 |
| 13 | Annecy | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| 14 | Dijon | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 12 |
| 15 | Rodez | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | -5 | 11 |
| 16 | Pau | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -7 | 11 |
| 17 | Laval | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -5 | 10 |
| 18 | Saint-Etienne | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -1 | 8 |
| 19 | Nîmes | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -7 | 8 |
| 20 | Niort | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -11 | 8 |
