20:00 Clermont Foot – Laval

Clermont Foot is in the lower half of the standings in the French Ligue 2 (5-5-8 24-26), with only three points advantage in front of the teams in the relegation zone.

However, I think, that the hosts are favorites to win all three points from this match against Stade Lavallois and I have two main reasons for my bet.

First of all – Clermont Foot is a team with good home record, as the hosts have won half of their previous eight games at “Stade Francis Le Basser” in this league, with three draws and only one defeat in this period (4-3-1 15-9).

Second – unlike his colleague, Corinne Diacre has no new problems with injured or suspended players ahead of this clash.

Stade Lavallois is in the upper half of the standings in this league (8th position / 5-11-2 21-17), but the visitors will travel to Clermond-Ferrand without four important players – Konate (d / 17+0), Ben Djemia (d / 7+0), Concalves (m / 18+1) and Diallo (f / 15+3).

An interesting fact is, that Clermont Foot lost only two points from the previous four games between these two teams at this stadium (3-1-0 6-1).