📊 Form Guide

AJ Auxerre

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AJ Auxerre will be looking for an improved result here after a 1-2 Ligue 1 defeat last time out to Havre AC.

In that game, AJ Auxerre managed 47% possession and 4 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. For AJ Auxerre, the goals were scored by Lassine Sinayoko (62') and Jubal (79' Own goal). Havre AC got 11 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Arouna Sangante (92') scored for Havre AC.

AJ Auxerre have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They have totted up the amount of 9 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 8. Having said that, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend might be maintained here in this game.

Coming into this contest, AJ Auxerre are without a win at home for the past 2 matches in the league.

Nantes

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Angers SCO in Ligue 1 action, Nantes and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Nantes managed 58% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Angers got 14 shots at goal with 2 on target. Jim Allevinah (52') scored for Angers SCO.

The stats don’t lie, and Nantes have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 8 goals in all. In defence, Nantes have some weaknesses to address.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 24/11/2012 shows that AJ Auxerre have won 2 of these games and Nantes 3, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

A total of 17 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 7 of them from AJA and 10 netted by Les Canaris. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The previous league contest featuring these sides was Ligue 1 match day 2 on 25/08/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Nantes 2-0 AJ Auxerre.

On that occasion, Nantes managed 35% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Goals were scored by Moses Simon (14') and Herba Guirassy (96').

For their opponents, AJ Auxerre had 12 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

The match was refereed by Gaël Angoula.

ℹ️ Team News: AJ Auxerre

Hamed Junior Traoré (Hamstring injury), Kévin Danois (Hamstring injury) and Nathan Buayi-Kiala (Cruciate ligament injury) will not be taking part for AJ Auxerre manager Christophe Pélissier.

We think that AJA will possibly go for a 3-2-4-1 system in the match, beginning the first half with Donovan Leon, Sinaly Diomande, Jubal, Clement Akpa, Paul Joly, Fredrik Oppegaard, Gaetan Perrin, Han-Noah Massengo, Assane Diousse, Ado Onaiwu and Lassine Sinayoko.

📰 Team News: Nantes

Nantes boss Antoine Kombouaré has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Francis Coquelin (Hamstring injury) and Saïdou Sow (Cruciate ligament tear) can’t be considered.

We believe Les Canaris appear most likely to elect for a 4-3-3 system, settling for Anthony Lopes, Kelvin Amian, J. Castelletto, Nathan Zeze, Fabien Centonze, Johann Lepenant, Pedro Chirivella, Louis Leroux, Matthis Abline, Mostafa Mohamed and Moses Simon.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that AJ Auxerre will need to push hard to score against this Nantes outfit who we reckon should win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

That’s why we have predicted a highly competitive game with a 0-1 advantage for Nantes at the end of this one.

Let’s see how this one goes.

Lucas Pereira, 18:06 10/05/2025