Ligue 2 betting preview: Chateauroux- Nimes

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Chateauroux- Nimes

 

We have been discussing Chateauroux's woes for seemingly two years, they were "relegated" last season, but earned a late reprieve, unfortunately for them after they had got together a third tier quality squad. They are in deep trouble again, six points + from safety, having not scored in four starts, two at home and coming off a frightful 6-0 hammering at Nancy last weekend , my preview of which read ...

Nancy look back on track after a very hard to explain fall from grace, they were second in the table with a 7-6-1 record in early November, but went to inform Nimes at the end of last month in ninth place having gone 0-1-6 through the interim period, throw in a cup defeat for good measure and their season was in danger of being over before Spring had sprung . However, a nice point in that pivotal game stopped the rot and they have subsequently beaten promotion rivals Sochaux and Brest and they are now a rival to the six clubs above them in the table and lie now just six points off the automatic promotion spots. This is a huge game for them, a match they should win and a chance to really build some momentum, dropping points to such a poor traveller after beating promotion contenders back to back would be little short of a disaster and I expect a very committed , focused performance from them and quite possibly a repeat of the thumping they administered in the reverse fixture, which they won 5-2. The squad is unchanged from last weekend's 2-0 win at Sochaux.

Chatearoux are six points from safety and as we have discussed many times, have a squad which was assembled for third tier football, they have won just 2 of 54 Ligue 2 away starts and arrive without suspended central defender Fabien Boyer (also sat out the reverse meeting....see above), this is an inexperienced group with nine players in today's squad aged 21 or younger or yet to play a game this season, three others are at the other end of the spectrum and in at least their 35th year, Jerome Leroy will be 41 later this year, very few are in their prime footballing years. Home win and it could be emphatic, Nancy have won the last three h2h meetings, all by two or more goals and have kept clean sheets in 6 of their last 8 games against Chateauroux.

 
The only thing in their favour today IMO is that Nimes played on Monday and teams have traditionally struggled with that, but Angers won here at the end of last month in the exact same circumstances and the visitors will be eyeing up the three points which could take them into the top seven. They will be boosted by the late winner they scored against Sochaux earlier this week ,ahead of which I spoke about their strong form in recent campaigns over the second half of the season.....
 
My last preview of a Nimes game is reproduced under the "good luck" sign off, I would suggest you take a quick look , especially the opening paragraph.  They won that 1-0 , subsequently losing at Brest last Monday, which stopped momentum slightly, but there is no shame in losing there, with Brest having an 8-4-0 home record and it at least has got them on the Monday cycle and training towards the televised fixture would have been so much more natural this last week, with back to back Monday night fixtures. I am not sure what they can hope to achieve this season, a win would take them to within seven points of the top three and that would still be a big ask, but they do finish campaigns strongly and surely will want to extend their season as long as possible and they probably like the look of their remaining fixtures, hosting three promotion contenders and playing a lot of mid table opposition on the road, which is what you want headng into the business end of the season.
 
Sochaux have lost their way, only beating basement club Arles in their last five starts and scoring just once in four, which came in that solitary win and was hard to come by. Their task is however, far more clear cut, a win this evening will take them up to 5th and just a point off second place, which is currently held by Brest, whom they travel to meet on Saturday. Sochaux have posted six road wins , which is better than anyone apart from Troyes, BUT and you knew it was coming all six have come against teams in the bottom eight and they have managed just two points from four starts against top ten teams and that is the level I feel Nimes are at right now.
 

Hosts have added new signing Panagliotis Vlachodimos to the squad for the first time after joing on loan from Olympiakos, he scored twice inside 23 minutes for the B team on his debut last weekend and the club are a little excited about him and we will surely see him in action this evening at some stage, that is very timely with top scorer Toifilou Maoulida suspended. Sochaux arrive without forwards Edouard Butin and Raphael Caceres, who have nine goals between them, six of which came on the road and highly agressive suspended defensive midfielder Florian Tardieu, just one win in five (three defeats) without him this season. This trio are big losses in my opinion.

 

Today they can freshen up with Maoulida (see above) and Briançon back from suspension and I expect them to win this ........1.5 units Nimes level ball 2.14 asian line/Sportmarket.
 
 
Châteauroux : Bonnefoi, Souchaud - Hountondji, Bonnart, Obiang, Bain, Nestor - Sakhi, Tait, Ca, Leroy, Roudet, Plessis - Thil, Garita, Nnomo.
 
Nîmes : Michel, Gallon - Barrillon, Harek, Cordoval, Marin, Renaut, Briançon, Hsissane, Parpeix, Robail, Nouri, Maoulida, Mendy, Koura, Vlachodimos.
 
 
Good luck.
 
 
 
 
 

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