On the 19th of March, in this week 28 match, Strasbourg hosts Auxerre at Stade De La Meinau in a clash of these two evenly matched Ligue 1 teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 13 degrees, which is great football weather. 15th placed Strasbourg is fresh off their 2-2 draw against Olympique Marseille. Chancel Mbemba scored the first goal for Olympique Marseille in the 49th minute, then Alexis Sánchez added another in the 76th minute from the penalty spot. Strasbourg is looking for direction having 3 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches, while auxerre is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Rennes. Neither Auxerre nor Rennes could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 15 and 7 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 10 points in their last 10 matches.
On Saturday Aug 27th, Auxerre hosted Strasbourg in their last match together. Auxerre was victorious by a score of 1 to 0 in front of just over 16000 jubilant spectators. Gaëtan Perrin struck first for Auxerre in the 29th minute on a feed from Lassine Sinayoko, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Strasbourg couldn’t manage to score, and Auxerre took the shutout win.
Matthis Abline and Jubal are the top scorers for Auxerre in the last 5 matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.. Strasbourg’s most prolific scorer has been Habib Diallo. He has netted three goals over the last five matches
Gerzino Nyamsi, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, Morgan Sanson, Alexander Djiku, Maxime Le Marchand and Eiji Kawashima are unavailable to play for Strasbourg, while Christophe Pélissier’s squad will be without Elisha Owusu and Hamza Sakhi.