📊 Form Guide

Stade Lavallois

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Stade Lavallois will be hoping to bounce back here after a 1-2 Ligue 2 losing effort in their last game against USL Dunkerque.

In that match, Stade Lavallois had 56% possession and 13 shots on goal with 6 on target. The only player to score for Stade Lavallois was Titouan Thomas (87'). On the other side, Dunkerque had 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Gaëtan Courtet (9') and Benjaloud Youssouf (44') scored for USL Dunkerque.

Stade Lavallois haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They’ve hit an aggregate of 9 during that time and have conceded a total of 6.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Stade Lavallois:

• have not lost a league tie with SC Bastia in their previous 3 matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 10 league games. No joy for the home fans.

SC Bastia

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against St Etienne in Ligue 2 competition, SC Bastia and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, SC Bastia had 51% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 on target. Saint-Etienne had 14 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Dylan Chambost (16'), Nathanaël Mbuku (45', 78') and Irvin Cardona (67') scored for St Etienne.

A tendency of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games featuring SC Bastia has become fairly consistent recently. Examining their last 6 outings reveals that it has happened 5 times. During those clashes, their opponents have managed a goal total of 9 and SC Bastia have scored 3. Historical results aside, we’ll just have to find out if that trend will be replicated in this next match.

Looking at their past form shows that SC Bastia:

• haven't beaten Stade Lavallois in games played away from home for the previous 3 league matches.
• have not won away from home in their last 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head meetings stretching back to 05/02/2010 shows that Stade Lavallois have won 4 of these & SC Bastia 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

A total of 16 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 11 of them for Les Tangos and 5 for Bastia. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The last league encounter featuring these sides was Ligue 2 match day 6 on 16/09/2023 when the final score was SC Bastia 0-3 Stade Lavallois.

In that match, SC Bastia managed 56% possession and 7 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player to score was Issiar Dramé (52' Own goal).

At the other end, Stade Lavallois got 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. Jimmy Roye (27') and Marvin Baudry (55') scored.

The referee was Oliver Thual.

ℹ️ Team News: Stade Lavallois

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just the lone fitness concern for the Stade Lavallois boss Olivier Frapolli to contend with from of an almost fully healthy group. Ryan Ferhaoui (Achilles tendon rupture) is sidelined.

📋 Team News: SC Bastia

SC Bastia boss Lilian Laslandes has multiple availability issues to deal with. Julien Maggiotti (Cruciate ligament tear) and Dumè Guidi (Patellar tendon rupture) won’t be making appearances.

🔮 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that SC Bastia will likely create enough chances to find the net against this Stade Lavallois lineup, however it is unlikely to be enough to avoid a loss.

Our selection here is for both teams to score in a 2-1 winning score for Stade Lavallois at the end of the match. Let’s see what happens here.

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Lucas Pereira, 17:02 30/03/2024