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Valenciennes and Sochaux meet at the Stade du Hainaut in a match for the 20th round of Ligue 2. The two teams drew 0-0 on 05-08-2016, the last time they faced each other in this edition of the league. At this stage, the record of direct confrontations indicates balance between these two teams, since there have been 2 draws and 1 win for each team in the last 4 games. In fact, the last time they met at this stadium was on 26-02-2016, in a game for Ligue 2 that ended in a tie for (2-2). The goals of the match were scored by S. Baradji (34 ‘) and P. Slidja (75’) for Valenciennes and K. Toko Ekambi (22 ‘) and F. Martin (55’) for Sochaux.
Valenciennes
The home team is currently in 12th place with 24 points earned after 5 wins, 9 draws and 5 losses. In the penultimate match, he tied for Red Star (2-2). In the last match, tied off to Auxerre by (1-1). For the championship, Valenciennes won 13 points out of 27 after 3 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses in their last 9 games at their stadium. In the matches played in his championship stadium, the most frequent result at the end of the first 45 ‘was 0-0, which occurred in 4 of his 9 matches. The team allowed their opponents to score in 8 of the last 10 games, so they have not shown great defensive solidity, but their attack has scored regularly, as they managed to make it 8 out of the last 10 games in this competition. In 19 games in this competition, only managed 1 turn on the scoreboard in the 8 games in which he suffered the first goal.
Valenciennes is bound to stay in the middle of the table again because they can not engage in a sequence of games punctuating a shoot from the middle of the table where they have been since the beginning of the current competition. The team is in the 12th place without many ambitions and without giving hope of good results to their fans.
His attack scores a lot of goals and is currently the best in the competition, something that would be very proud if the team did not have a well-defined defensive sector that allows many goals to be suffered, more precisely twenty-six in nineteen games.
The team makes an unstable campaign playing in their stadium, where they have only three wins, four draws and two losses in nine matches and still an average of 1.1 goals, which is a lot for any team that wants the first place.
Sochaux
After 8 wins, 8 draws and 3 losses, the visiting team is in 5th place, having won 32 points. In the last match, he won the Red Star at home (2-0), after having won the previous match in a game against Amiens (0-1). The team arrive in this match after a home defeat with Monaco by (3-4) in the tie-break. In the championship, the Sochaux won 15 points in 27 possible, after 4 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses in the last 9 games he played as a visitor. In his league games as a visitor the most frequent result at half-time was 0-0 (6 out of 9 matches). His attack has scored regularly, as he has scored goals in 8 of the last 10 games for this competition. In their games away to this competition there is a tendency to have few goals, since 4 of the last 9 that disputed finished with Less than 1.5 goals. In 19 games in this competition, he never managed to get back on the scoring in the 6 games in which he suffered the first goal.
Sochaux are on the heel of third-placed, who have the same number of points, being fifth place not so significant for the team that are only two points behind the leader, with a simple victory to reach the top of the table. The team is along with Lens, the least lost, with only three defeats in the competition.
With its sequence of four victories and a draw in the last five matches played, the team has behaved as a candidate to reach the first places, stirring the current Ligue 2 and leaving this second round even more interesting and with great possibilities of the balance between Teams to continue.
His away campaign is good, having four wins, three draws and two losses, still averaging 0.8 goals scored for 1, a close average, but overall figures have shown that the team is not usually intimidated Playing outside his stadium.
Prediction: Sochaux x2 @ 1.78