Match week two of the Ligue 1 season and the sides have taken their learnings from the first match. Here's the best Etoile du Sahel - CS Sfaxien pre-match guide:
- Etoile du Sahel have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- CS Sfaxien have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
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.
Etoile du Sahel form and stats
The season before, Etoile du Sahel's league statistics were 15 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses, producing 2nd place in the Ligue 1. During these 26 matches they scored 46 goals and conceded 26. Appearing as the host team in the previous season Etoile du Sahel managed 9-3-1 (win-draw-lost) with 29 goals and 10 conceded.
Etoile du Sahel's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus CS Sfaxien (placed 4th).
Before that match, a win away at Ben Guerdane.CS Sfaxien form and stats
Let's have a look at how CS Sfaxien performed last season in the Ligue 1: They landed a 4th position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 10 draws and 6 defeats. In total they scored 29 and conceded 16 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 7 and lost 3 with 11/8 goals scored/conceded. The story so far for the visiting team on their Ligue 1 travels is 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
Sfaxien play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Etoile du Sahel (placed 2nd).
Prior to that match, the CS Sfaxien manager Almeida faced defeat when travelling to ES Tunis and losing 1-2.As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, CS Sfaxien has managed 1 goal and let in 2 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - five - four (Etoile du Sahel wins - draws - CS Sfaxien wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Harzi 5 goals |  Y. Amri 3 goals | V. Kombe 3 goals |
Etoile du Sahel missing players
CS Sfaxien missing players
| Etoile du Sahel | CS Sfaxien | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 16 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 19 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 8 | 12 |
| 81% | 88% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 78% | 88% |
| 56% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 44% | 50% |
| 19% | 12% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 33% | 25% |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 31% | 38% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 33% | 31% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 44% | 50% |
| 38% | 25% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 44% | 31% |
| 2.8 | 3.6 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 2.7 | 3.2 |
| 2.3 | 3.4 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 4 | 3.6 |
| 1.8 | 2.7 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 1.9 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5.6 | 5 | 3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3 | 4.3 | 5.2 |
| 2.1 | 2 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2.2 | 2.3 |
| 56% | 42% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 31% | 39% |
| 4.7 | 3.3 | 3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.5 | 7.3 | 7.1 |
| 1.9 | 1.3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.3 | 2.6 |
- CS Sfaxien have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Etoile du Sahel have won significantly more corners at 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 | ES Tunis | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | Etoile du Sahel | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 3 | Monastir | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | CS Sfaxien | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 5 | Club Africain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 6 | Ben Guerdane | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 |
