📏 Form Guide

Strasbourg

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Strasbourg enter this match coming off the back of a 0-0 Ligue 1 drawn game versus Toulouse.

In that game, Strasbourg had 52% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Toulouse had 11 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

Their latest results show that not much more can be done by the Strasbourg backline. Strasbourg have been miserly, seeing the tally of goals that have gone in at their end over the course of their past 6 outings standing at 4. That trend isn’t assured to be continued into this match, however.

Reims

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In their last fixture, Reims drew 0-0 in the Ligue 1 match with Nice.

In that match, Reims had 52% possession and 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. On the other side, Nice had 18 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

The numbers tell their own story, and Reims have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 6 goals overall. Defensively, Reims have seen their frailties exposed.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Reims:

• haven't won against Strasbourg when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven't been beaten by Strasbourg in away games against them for the last 3 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 31/01/2021 shows us that Strasbourg have won 1 of these and Reims 2, with the tally of drawn games being 3.

An aggregate of 12 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 6 of them for Le Racing and 6 being from Les rouges et blancs. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The last league encounter featuring these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 14 on 01/12/2023 when it ended Reims 2-1 Strasbourg.

That day, Reims had 51% possession and 13 shots at goal with 4 on target. The scorer was Amir Richardson (10').

Strasbourg had 9 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Lucas Perrin (42' Own goal) and Kévin Gameiro (88') scored.

The referee was Hakim Ben El Hadj.

📰 Team News: Strasbourg

Karol Fila (Cruciate ligament tear) and Lebo Mothiba (Patellar tendon rupture) are not available for Strasbourg boss Patrick Vieira.

We think that Le Racing will probably use a 3-4-2-1 system for this one, handing starts to Alaa Bellaarouch, Frederic Guilbert, Lucas Perrin, Saidou Sow, Abakar Sylla, Thomas Delaine, Andrey Santos, Ibrahima Sissoko, Dilane Bakwa, Habib Diarra and Kevin Gameiro.

🗞️ Team News: Reims

We’re of the thinking that Les rouges et blancs seem most likely to play in a 4-3-3 formation by sending out Yehvann Diouf, Emmanuel Agbadou, Joseph Okumu, Yunis Abdelhamid, Thibault De Smet, Reda Khadra, V. Atangana Edoa, Amir Richardson, Junya Ito, Oumar Diakite and Keito Nakamura.

💭 Prediction

It’s looking like Reims and Strasbourg may well end up cancelling each other out here.

It could well end in a draw. Therefore, we predict a very even match with a 1-1 draw at the end of the 90 minutes.

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Victor Martins, 14:08 13/04/2024