Valenciennes FC vs Metz Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Valenciennes FC

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Valenciennes FC won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 2-1 Ligue 2 defeat last time out to Dijon.

The only name on the scoresheet from Valenciennes FC was Jason Berthomier (50'). Mickaël Le Bihan (45') and Idrissa Camara (75') scored for Dijon.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Valenciennes FC have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Valenciennes FC have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 10 goals in the process. We will just have to see if that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Valenciennes FC:

• have not emerged victorious against FC Metz in their previous 3 league matches.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 11 league matches at home. A run that they'll hope to extend here.
• are without a win at home for the past 3 league matches.

FC Metz

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Metz come into this clash after a 2-0 Ligue 2 win to beat Quevilly-Rouen in their previous outing.

For FC Metz, the goalscorers were Ablie Jallow (72') and Georges Mikautadze (92').

A succession of reliable displays from the FC Metz defensive unit has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 4 from their previous 6 outings overall. Over that same time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 12.

Coming into this fixture, FC Metz have not been beaten in their last 3 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 17/08/2015 tells us that Valenciennes FC have won 1 of these games and Metz 5, with the tally of drawn results being 0.

In all, 16 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 2 from Les Athéniens and 14 coming from Les Grenats. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The previous league match featuring the two was Ligue 2 match day 3 on 13/08/2022 when it finished FC Metz 2-0 Valenciennes FC.

The referee was Mikael Lesage.

🗞️ Team News: Valenciennes FC

The Valenciennes FC manager Nicolas Rabuel will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns at all before this clash owing to a fully healthy squad available to choose from.

📋 Team News: Metz

In an otherwise full-strength squad, there’s just a single fitness problem for the Metz boss László Bölöni to be concerned with. Marc-Aurèle Caillard (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) misses out for this game.

💡 Prediction

We think that Valenciennes FC might have a difficult job to score goals against this FC Metz side who we think will do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 winning margin for FC Metz at the end of the 90 minutes.

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

Renata Leite, 02:20 24/01/2023