📏 Form Guide

Clermont Foot

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Clermont Foot, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 2-1 Ligue 1 success versus Havre AC.

In that game, Clermont Foot had 40% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Clermont Foot was Muhammed Cham (12', 45'). Havre AC had 14 attempts on goal with 5 on target. André Ayew (45') was the scorer for Havre AC.

It has been seldom in recent times where Clermont Foot haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Clermont Foot have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 11 goals during that time.

Coming into this meeting, Clermont Foot haven't been beaten in the league by Toulouse in their previous 3 matches.

Toulouse

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After tasting defeat last time out to Lyon in Ligue 1 competition, Toulouse will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Toulouse had 50% possession and 13 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Toulouse, the goalscorers were Thijs Dallinga (53') and Vincent Sierro (59'). For their opponents, Lyon had 18 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Alexandre Lacazette (33'), Rayan Cherki (77') and Jake O'Brien (81') scored for Lyon.

The stats tell the story, and Toulouse have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 7 goals overall. Defensively, Toulouse have been far from perfect. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be sustained into this game, though.

Heading into this contest, Toulouse are winless against Clermont Foot in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 12/04/2003, both clubs have shared the honours with Clermont Foot winning 2 of those games, Toulouse 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

A total of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 8 of them from Clermont and 7 being from Toulouse. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The last league meeting featuring these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 4 on 03/09/2023 when it ended Toulouse 2-2 Clermont Foot.

In that game, Toulouse managed 37% possession and 9 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Goals were scored by Zakaria Aboukhlal (8') and Frank Magri (15').

For their opponents, Clermont Foot got 15 shots on goal with 3 on target. Grejohn Kyei (34') and Florent Ogier (96') scored.

The referee was Florent Batta.

📋 Team News: Clermont Foot

The Clermont Foot boss Pascal Gastien doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this clash thanks to a completely injury-free squad available to choose from.

📋 Team News: Toulouse

Thanks to a fully healthy squad available for selection, the Toulouse manager Carles Martínez Novell has zero fitness concerns to speak of coming into this clash.

⚡ Prediction

Our assessment here is that Clermont Foot will have to work hard as a team to be putting a goal past this Toulouse team who should be able to grind out a win.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very competitive game with a 0-1 win for Toulouse at the conclusion of the game.

Let’s see how this one goes.

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Andre Moura, 12:04 31/03/2024