Ligue 1 – Match-day 4: Troyes v Angers SCO
Troyes at home against Angers – Sunday – 3:00pm GMT – Stade de l’Aube.
Sunday’s clash between Troyes and Angers, sees twentieth take on seventeenth in the League.
Troyes require a positive result, as Angers SCO go to Stade de l’Aube
Lyon were beaten 4-1 at Groupama Stadium, the last time that Troyes played.
Also, Bruno Irles may ponder the reasons why his Troyes team are struggling at the bottom of the table this season. But three defeats out of the last three games, should be all the analysis that he really needs. Their position is twentieth in the League and they have no points, that is, 0W, 3L and 0D having lost three fixtures.
Troyes have lost one game of their one League matches at home this season.
Troyes are likely to be missing two of their key players when they start Sunday’s game, due to injury and illness.
Angers SCO have so far accrued two points in this season of the Ligue 1
This match gives Gerald Baticle’s Angers 90 minutes to get their season back on track. Their last outing resulted in a 1-3 loss to Brest, with a 2-2 draw against Auxerre before that. Only a positive result will be good enough.
Also, with two draws in three meetings, Angers need to develop a strategy for getting over the line in games. With two points (0W, 1L and 2D), they are established in seventeenth position in the League having drawn two matches and lost one game.
Angers will travel to Troyes with a win record on the road that is quite unremarkable, with one dart.
Victory for Angers SCO would take their points tally to 5 so far this season.
Angers’s squad has depth, but even so, Gerald Baticle is likely to be missing three of they key players when they start Sunday’s game.
Troyes v Angers SCO – Head-to-Head.
Regarding their historical duels the recent form between these two sides has seen Angers with a greater number of wins. In the last 24 meetings, they have enjoyed 10 wins, to Troyes’s eight victories. Additionally, Angers have been hugely successful away to Troyes of late, winning three fixtures times in the last two. The last time they played each other in this competition was January 2022, when Troyes walked away as 2-1 winners.
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