Amiens
- SC Amiens will play host to Le Mans FC on Friday in a Ligue 2 matchup that means much more to the home side than their visitors.
- Amiens have won none, drawn one and lost four of their last five Ligue 2 fixtures.
- This match represents an important chance for the home team to stop the slide following Omar Daf’s departure and Alain Pochat’s appointment as the interim manager.
- Amiens usually set up in a compact shape, looking to be compact and organised defensively, with their players knowing their roles well and trying to hit their opponent on the counter-attack.
- However, recent changes mean that we may not see that on display on Friday, and Le Mans FC will look to expose Amiens on the flanks.
Le Mans
- Le Mans FC have won two and drawn two of their last five Ligue 2 matches, losing only once.
- Patrick Videira’s men have a positive approach to games and their 3-5-2 formation utilises energetic wing-backs who create width, make quick transitions and press aggressively to unsettle the opposition.
- Le Mans currently occupy 3rd spot in Ligue 2 having accumulated 47 points from 27 games while Amiens are 16th with just 23 points from the same number of matches.
Key Players
- Antoine Rabillard is Le Mans’s main attacking focal point with 7 goals in 23 Ligue 2 appearances, four of which have come in their last five.
- Teddy Averlant leads the line for Amiens with just five goals in 27 Ligue 2 games and, although he is the team’s best goal-getter, is hardly a lethal striker.
- He will be Le Mans’s primary target on the night and we expect him to be shadowed by one of the visitors’ defensive midfielders.
Betting Insights
The odds on Le Mans to take all three points away make them look very appealing at 2.1 , while we’re taking ‘Both Teams to Score - Yes’ at 1.8 given both sides’ recent scoring records.
Prediction
Le Mans have scored 23 times on the road this season, and with Amiens conceding an average of 1.69 goals per home match in Ligue 2 , we feel that they can capitalise on Amiens’s defensive deficiencies and score a few goals on Friday.
