On Sat Mar 19th, in week 30, Niort and Quevilly Rouen will play a match in Niort in a meeting of these two Ligue 2 teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 12 degrees, a perfect day for football. Niort sits at 13th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-1 draw against Sochaux. Aldo Kalulu scored the first goal for Sochaux in the 8th minute, then Sissoko tied it up for Niort in the 48th minute earning Niort a comeback draw. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 8 points in their last 10 matches, while 18th placed Quevilly Rouen is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Ajaccio. Neither Quevilly Rouen nor Ajaccio could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 5 and 6 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 7 points in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, in Stade Robert Diochon, Niort was victorious by a score of 3 to 0. Lenny Vallier scored the first goal for Niort in the 13th minute, then Joseph Mendes added another in the 22nd minute on a penalty shot At the end of 90 a dissapointed Quevilly Rouen couldn’t manage to score, and Niort took the shutout win.
Padovani and Issa Soumaré are the top scorers for Quevilly Rouen in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal. It’s hard to imagine having success with those stats.