AJ Auxerre vs Châteauroux Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

AJ Auxerre

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AJ Auxerre will play in this fixture following on from a 2-2 Ligue 2 drawn game vs Grenoble.

For AJ Auxerre, the scorers were Mickaël Le Bihan (23') and Hamza Sakhi (50'). Achille Anani (79') and Loïc Nestor (93') scored for Grenoble.

AJ Auxerre haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, finding the back of the net in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They’ve managed to rack up 14 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 6.

Going into this one, AJ Auxerre are unbeaten in their previous 8 home league matches. A run that they'll hope to extend here.

Châteauroux

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against EA Guingamp in Ligue 2 competition, Châteauroux and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

For Châteauroux, the scorers were Rémi Mulumba (77') and Christopher Opéri (79'). Ronny Rodelin (58'), Frantzdy Pierrot (67') and Yeni N'Gbakoto (74') scored for EA Guingamp.

Looking at their form, and Châteauroux have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, conceding 12 goals in total. Defensively, Châteauroux seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this match, however.

Pre-game facts show that Châteauroux:

• remain undefeated by AJ Auxerre when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.
• have not won away from home in their last 8 league matches. Very poor, indeed.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 08/12/2017 shows us that AJ Auxerre have won 2 of these and Châteauroux 3, with the number of draws being 1.

A total of 13 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 6 of them for AJA and 7 being from Châteauroux. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The previous league clash between these sides was Ligue 2 match day 2 on 29/08/2020 which ended up with the score at Châteauroux 1-2 AJ Auxerre.

The match was refereed by Pierre Gaillouste.

🗞️ Team News: AJ Auxerre

AJ Auxerre manager Jean-Marc Furlan has a full complement, with no fitness worries at all before this match with a completely injury-free squad available to select from. Aly Ndom cannot play in this game through suspension.

📋 Team News: Châteauroux

In an otherwise healthy group of players, there is only a single fitness problem for the Châteauroux boss Benoît Cauet to contend with. Chaker Alhadhur (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) misses out for this game.

💭 Prediction

In our view, AJ Auxerre will probably be able to create a decent number of chances and shots on target.

At the same time, Châteauroux may well struggle to find the back of the net although we do think that they will probably end up managing to get on the scoresheet as well here.

Our tip is for a pretty comfortable 3-1 victory for AJ Auxerre at the end of the match.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 11:09 12/01/2021