Bourg-en-Bresse will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 9 points behind Pau.
Bourg-en-Bresse and Pau 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.
Bourg-en-Bresse form and stats
Overall National stats at home this season for Bourg-en-Bresse are 5-5-1 (wins-draw-losses).
Bourg-en-Bresse are returning here after visiting Dunkerque in a National game and winning with a 4-3 scoreline. A 1-1 draw away before that, with Gazélec Ajaccio the opponent.
As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
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 Bourg-en-Bresse have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 13 matches with the results: Won six, drawn three and lost four.
A decent goal production from Bourg-en-Bresse in their home games so far, with 18 goals from 11 league matches. Bourg-en-Bresse have conceded 11 in these home matches.
Pau form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (40) in National, are W5-D4-L1 on the road this term. That's in the National.
Pau go into this game after a win, the home game against Toulon that ended 3-0. Preceding that game was the away victory against Red Star with the score of 2-1.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 17 similar matches played by Pau in our archives, and the results are: seven wins for Pau, five draws and five defeats.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Pau as they have only managed to score 8 times from 10 away games in the league. It's not easy to score on Pau as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Pau - Bourg-en-Bresse 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Bourg-en-Bresse two wins, zero draws and Pau one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Anani 14 goals |  M. Gueye 12 goals | C. Sabaly 10 goals |
Bourg-en-Bresse missing players
Pau missing players
| Bourg-en-Bresse | Pau | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 22 |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 33 | 18 | 4 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 40 |
| 29 | 11 | 4 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 18 |
| 91% | 82% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 60% | 82% |
| 73% | 73% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 30% | 64% |
| 55% | 55% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 30% | 50% |
| 36% | 45% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 10% | 27% |
| 14% | 9% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 10% | 23% |
| 64% | 55% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 30% | 45% |
| 32% | 45% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 70% | 55% |
| 14% | 18% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | 18% |
| 5.6 | 6.5 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 2.8 | 4.6 |
| 3.8 | 3.5 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 4.3 | 3.4 |
| 2 | 1.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 215 | 136 | 30 | Total Shots | T S | 20 | 77 | 199 |
| 95 | 61 | 12 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 35 | 88 |
| 35% | 30% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 11% | 23% | 45% |
- Bourg-en-Bresse have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Pau have scored away.
- Pau has the fewest conceded goals (6) away
- Pau has the most clean sheets (12)
- Pau has the most clean sheets (7) away
- Pau has the most scored goals (40)
- Pau has the most scored goals in the second half (24)
- Pau has the the best goal difference (+22)
- Pau have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Pau have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Pau | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 40 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 44 |
| 2 | Dunkerque | 22 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 39 | 23 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 43 |
| 3 | Villefranche | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 32 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 40 |
| 4 | Red Star | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 28 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 38 |
| 5 | Lyon Duchère | 22 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 35 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 8 | 37 |
| 6 | Boulogne | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 37 |
| 7 | Avranches | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 36 |
| 8 | Bourg-en-Bresse | 22 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 33 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 4 | 35 |
| 9 | Laval | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 32 |
| 10 | Créteil | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 29 | 25 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 28 |
| 11 | Quevilly Rouen | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 24 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 18 | -6 | 24 |
| 12 | Cholet | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 26 | 35 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 24 | -9 | 24 |
| 13 | Bastia-Borgo | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 31 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 15 | -9 | 23 |
| 14 | Concarneau | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 14 | -7 | 22 |
| 15 | Le Puy F.43 Auvergne | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 24 | 33 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 21 | -9 | 20 |
| 16 | Béziers | 22 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 22 | 39 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 25 | -17 | 20 |
| 17 | Gazélec Ajaccio | 22 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 28 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 21 | -16 | 16 |
| 18 | Toulon | 22 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 29 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 17 | -16 | 10 |