📊 Form Guide

Reims

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Reims will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 3-0 Ligue 1 loss in their previous game against Monaco.

In that match, Reims had 44% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 5 on target. At the other end, Monaco had 23 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. Mika Biereth (34', 39', 51') was the scorer for Monaco.

It has been seldom in recent times that Reims have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Reims have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 10 goals along the way.

Their past results show that Reims:

• haven't won against AJ Auxerre in their last 2 league matches.
• have not won at home in their last 8 matches in the league. It's been disappointing.

AJ Auxerre

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After a loss in their previous game against Strasbourg in Ligue 1 action, AJ Auxerre and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, AJ Auxerre managed 45% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Strasbourg got 6 shots at goal with 3 on target. Emanuel Emegha (47') scored for Strasbourg.

Illustrating their involvement in action-packed encounters, goals have been seen as many as 20 times in the last six matches in which AJ Auxerre have taken to the field, yielding an average of 3.33 goals per clash. Opposition teams have got 10 from this total. Such a trend might not be carried forward into this match, however.

Coming into this clash, AJ Auxerre are without a win away from home in their last 5 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head meetings dating back to 03/03/2017 shows us that Reims have won 4 of these games & AJ Auxerre 1, with the number of draws standing at 1.

A sum of 16 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 of them from Les rouges et blancs and 5 created by AJA. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was Ligue 1 match day 8 on 20/10/2024 when it ended AJ Auxerre 2-1 Reims.

In that match, AJ Auxerre had 35% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. The goals were scored by Sinaly Diomandé (16') and Hamed Junior Traorè (52').

Reims had 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Keito Nakamura (95') scored.

The referee was Florent Batta.

📰 Team News: Reims

Jordan (Hamstring injury), Reda Khadra (Cruciate ligament tear) and Mohamed Daramy (Knee injury) won’t be available for Reims gaffer Samba Diawara.

It seems likely that Les rouges et blancs will probably kick off with a 3-4-3 system for this one, handing starts to Yehvann Diouf, Joseph Okumu, Hiroki Sekine, Sergio Akieme, Mory Gbane, V. Atangana Edoa, Teddy Teuma, John Patrick, Junya Ito, Oumar Diakite and Keito Nakamura.

📰 Team News: AJ Auxerre

AJ Auxerre manager Christophe Pélissier has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Sinaly Diomandé (Adductor pain), Lasso Coulibaly (Cruciate ligament injury) and Nathan Buayi-Kiala (Cruciate ligament injury) are those who can’t be considered.

We are inclined to think that AJA will likely begin the game with a 3-2-4-1 lineup, starting Donovan Leon, Gabriel Osho, Jubal, Clement Akpa, Ki-Jana Hoever, Gideon Mensah, Gaetan Perrin, Hamed Traore, Kevin Danois, Elisha Owusu and Thelonius Bair.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that AJ Auxerre and Reims may well end up cancelling each other out here.

There should be little in it, and a draw looks to be quite a realistic result. That’s why our selection here is for a very even match with a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes.

Lucas Pereira, 16:06 09/03/2025