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Nimes vs Rennes Prediction & Betting tips
On paper, Stade Rennais is the towering favorite against last-minute Nîmes Olympique, but the fact is that Stade Rennais fell down last weekend, while Nîmes Olympique did win.
Nimes Olympique:
The last eight games of 2019 were not all won by Nîmes Olympique, but this calendar year the team of Bernard Blaquart is still unbeaten. In the 1 / 32nd finals of the Coupe de France, a series of penalties was won and last weekend was dealt with in-house with Stade Reims. Les Crocodiles played a strong first half and went into the break with a 1-0 lead and after a red card for Stade Reims, they had little to fear in the second half. During injury time, mercenary Yassine Benrahou set the final score at 2-0, which means that Crocodiles will be at least temporarily in last place.
Nîmes Olympique achieved most of the points in-house this season. On the move, a draw was made four times and lost six times, while in the Stade des Costières only four times were lost, as opposed to three wins and two draws. In the last few weeks the results at home were not too good either, but with the victory at Stade Reims, Blaquart’s team showed that they could also achieve a result against higher rated teams. Despite the third victory of the season, Nîmes Olympique is still five points away from the safe seventeenth place, but if the level of the first half can be held against Stade Reims, relegation seems to be very preventable.
Stade Rennais:
With five victories in the Ligue 1 in a row, Stade Rennais seemed well on its way to threaten Olympique Marseille second place until last weekend, but due to a 1-0 home defeat in the mutual match, the gap in second place is now eight points again . In a parallel game, Julien Stéphan’s team only managed to score a goal in the final stage, as Edouard Mendy had no answer to a rebound by Kevin Strootman. Despite the sixth defeat of the season, les Rouges and Noirs are still in more than neat third place, but the lead on number four, Nantes, has now shrunk to a point.
The nineteen league matches of Stade Rennais this season had 42 goals, converted to an average of 2.2 hits per game, but in recent weeks the Stéphan’s team has had few goals. In just one of the last five league games of les Rouges et Noirs, more than two hits were scored, and in the last three hundred minutes of play against teams from the Ligue 1, only two hits fell. Nevertheless, Stade Rennais has several attackers to take into account, because both M’Baye Niang and Adrien Hunou are in the top thirty of the top scorers ranking with both at least five hits.
Nimes vs Rennes head to head matches
09.04.19 L1 Nimes Rennes 3 : 1
22.12.18 L1 Rennes Nimes 4 : 0