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Nimes vs Brest Prediction & Betting tips
Anyone who asked about the relegation candidates in the French Ligue 1 in the run-up to the season would hear the names Nimes and Brest as an answer in addition to the two promoters Lorient and Lens. No wonder, because both teams have recently returned to the top division in the country of the reigning world champions. Nimes rose in 2018 and just managed to stay in the league when the season ended. Brest ended up in 14th place as the promoted last season.
In the run-up to the game between Nimes and Brest, the odds of the bookmakers, according to the betting base odds comparison, nevertheless hit the home side, although they did not really shine as 18th in the final table.
Nevertheless, the head-to-head comparison must also be taken into account for the forecast at Nimes against Brest. And it just shows that the Crocodiles, as the men from Nimes are also called, were able to win very clearly against Brest at home last season when they ended up 3-0 at the Stade des Costières. It was also the fourth consecutive competitive win against the men from Brittany.
But because the cards were reshuffled during the long break, we think it is difficult to place a tip on the outcome of the game at Nimes against Brest.
Nimes:
On the twelfth match day of the preseason, Olympique Nimes held the red lantern in Ligue 1 for the first time. Only after the 19th match day could the torch finally be passed on to Toulouse FC before the Crocodiles climbed to 18th place after a good final spurt.
At the time of the end of the season, it would normally have been relegated. Before the games against Ajaccio, third in Ligue 2, the Reds were able to escape successfully because the association canceled the playoffs because of the crisis to ensure the teams’ planning security.
All in all, it can be said that Olympique Nimes came out of a weak season with a dark blue eye, in which at the end of 29:44 goals were just 27 points.
It was all the less surprising that long-time trainer Bernard Blaquart had to pack his bags in the summer. The Crocodiles are instead heading into the new season with Jérôme Arpinon, who has been the assistant coach under Blaquart over the years.
The first and foremost the transfer phase, which has been very successful so far, encourages us to have a somewhat quieter season. Yassine Benrahou, on loan from Bordeaux last season, has signed a permanent contract. With Andrés Cubas, Birger Meling and Baptiste Reynet, three other promising candidates were added, while there have been no significant departures so far.
Apparently, the southern French seem stronger than in the previous season, which favors a tip for a successful start to the season in the Stade des Costières at Nimes against Brest. This is supported by the fact that the last home game to date against the Pirates ended with a confident 3-0 home win.
Brest:
In the Eternal Table of Ligue 1, the club Stade Brestois 29, which was formed from a merger in 1950, only ranks 36th. No wonder, because the players from Brittany have only played 14 seasons in the top division of France, in which only 148 of the 522 matches were won.
Last season, however, the club, who returned to Ligue 1 in the summer of 2019 after six years of absence, did exceptionally well. In the end, it was 14th place. With seven points behind, an international starting position was closer than the first relegation position, which was comfortably eleven points ahead.
Of course, Olivier Dall’Oglio, who has a contract until the end of the season, can continue as head coach for the team also known as “The Pirates”. The 56-year-old can also be pleased that there was by no means a sale in the summer.
On the contrary! Stade Brest also have no loss of players who they would have liked to keep. Instead, the second and third rows were even vigorously sorted out to make room for new staff. The men from Brittany have invested more than ten million euros so far and are thus also starting the new season significantly.
However, Stade Brest has to improve in the away games. In the preseason, the pirates could only win two of their 14 games on foreign courts.
A number that should certainly have flowed into the bookmakers’ odds at Nimes against Brest. Although Olivier Dall’Oglio’s side scored seven points more than Olympique Nimes in the 2019/20 season, Brest will go into the first league game of the new season as an underdog.
Nimes vs Brest head to head matches
31.08.19 L1 Nimes Brest 3 : 0
19.03.18 L2 Brest Nimes 0 : 2
20.10.17 L2 Nimes Brest 4 : 0
06.05.17 L2 Brest Nimes 2 : 3
09.12.16 L2 Nimes Brest 1 : 2