A home victory is predicted from this game if the league table is to be trusted. The Martigues fans are confident that the mismatch between 2nd and Villefranche's 13th position in the table will be revealed on the pitch.
- Martigues have not yet lost a game at home.
- Villefranche have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
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!
Martigues form and stats
21 points is a decent return from 9 National games here at Stade Francis Turcan for Martigues. The data says 6 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses. Martigues are on a three game winning streak in their home games.
Martigues are confident in defense, having played 226 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
An away draw last time out for Martigues, facing Stade Briochin in a game that ended 0-0.
Ahead of that match, Martigues won a home game hosting Chateauroux (1-0).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 Martigues have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 6 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 3 and lost 0.
Low-scoring affair? In this team's last 12 league games, 9 have contained zero, one or two goals.
There will be little rest for Martigues after this match as they are travelling to Sedan for a National game in only four days.
The Martigues fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 16 goals in 9 league matches. Martigues have only conceded 8 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Villefranche form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Villefranche so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 1-5-4 (win-draw-lose). Villefranche has drawn their two previous away games.
There were no winners in Villefranche's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Avranches (placed 14th).
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Gobelins.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 8 similar matches played by Villefranche in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Villefranche, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
Low-scoring game? 8 of this team's latest 10 league matches have had two goals or less.
After this away game Villefranche return home for a National game against Le Puy F.43 Auvergne. That game is only four sleeps after this.
The visitors have scored 9 goals from 10 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Villefranche have seen the ball go into their own net 14 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Martigues have pulled off a streak of 7 consecutive games without losing (3-4-0) when facing Villefranche.The fixture history shows this score when the teams played each other earlier this season; Villefranche - Martigues 1-1. The games between these sides sometimes lean towards being a bit wild, having seen 8 red cards from the last seven duels.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Hemia 8 goals |   M. Ba 7 goals | R. Sergio 6 goals |
Martigues missing players
Villefranche missing players
| Martigues | Villefranche | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 9 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| 9 | 6 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 29 | 16 | 8 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 23 |
| 21 | 8 | 4 | Conceded | C | 5 | 14 | 25 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 90% | 95% |
| 80% | 78% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 70% | 85% |
| 45% | 44% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 30% | 25% |
| 25% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 20% | 20% |
| 5% | 11% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 20% | 15% |
| 70% | 67% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 70% | 65% |
| 25% | 33% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 10% | 15% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 30% | 25% |
| 3.9 | 4.6 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 5.2 | 4.8 |
| 2.9 | 2.7 | 2.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.5 |
| 2.5 | 1.9 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10.8 | 11.8 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.3 | 9.5 | 10.9 |
| 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.4 | 4.2 |
| 33% | 38% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 26% | 28% |
| 9.1 | 7.6 | 7.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.7 | 9.5 | 10.3 |
| 3.6 | 2.8 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
- Martigues have not yet lost a game at home.
- Martigues have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Martigues haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Villefranche have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 | Versailles | 21 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 31 | 23 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 39 |
| 2 | Martigues | 20 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 29 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 36 |
| 3 | Red Star | 20 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 14 | 35 |
| 4 | Concarneau | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 33 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 33 |
| 5 | Sedan | 21 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 27 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 0 | 33 |
| 6 | Cholet | 21 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 29 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 32 |
| 7 | Dunkerque | 21 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 27 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 30 |
| 8 | Orleans | 21 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 29 |
| 9 | Le Mans | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 34 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 28 |
| 10 | Bourg-en-Bresse | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 28 | 31 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 13 | -3 | 27 |
| 11 | Chateauroux | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -3 | 27 |
| 12 | Nancy | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | -2 | 26 |
| 13 | Villefranche | 20 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 23 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -2 | 24 |
| 14 | Avranches | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 13 | -5 | 24 |
| 15 | Stade Briochin | 21 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 20 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 14 | -6 | 19 |
| 16 | Le Puy F.43 Auvergne | 21 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 27 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 16 | -12 | 19 |
| 17 | Gobelins | 20 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 15 | -7 | 17 |
| 18 | Bastia-Borgo | 21 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 20 | 43 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 20 | -23 | 16 |
