AJ Auxerre vs Angers SCO Preview 14/08/2022

AJ Auxerre vs Angers SCO – 14/08/2022

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The French prime flight motion continues on Sunday with newcomers, Auxerre, taking up Angers on the Stade de l’Abbé Deschamps, with the hosts taking part in their first dwelling sport in Ligue for over 10 years.

Auxerre lastly achieved promotion again as much as the French prime flight on the finish of final season once they overcame former Ligue 1 facet, Saint Etienne, on penalties within the relegation/promotion play-off remaining after the scores have been stage at 2-2 on mixture.

Nevertheless, the euphoria of reaching promotion again as much as the promised land was short-lived after being on the receiving finish of a heavy 4-1 defeat away from dwelling at Lille in final weekend’s season opener, and though they now return to dwelling soil for this Sunday’s conflict with Angers, early strain seems to be on the hosts already.

Though Angers aren’t thought-about as being amongst the heavyweights of this division, Auxerre have struggled in opposition to their upcoming guests because the hosts have didn’t beat them in every of the earlier six conferences.

Auxerre will likely be with out defender, Pellenard, who has a knee damage.

Angers completed within the backside half of Ligue 1 on the finish of the final Ligue 1 marketing campaign, sitting in 14th place however in fact, the guests have been by no means actually in any hazard of relegation as they possessed a helpful nine-point buffer over third from backside membership, Saint Etienne.

Nevertheless, Angers actually didn’t do themselves any favours because the guests had collected only one win from a sequence of 14 video games within the home prime flight from the top of January by means of to the beginning of Could which reveals how unhealthy the underside three groups’ kind should have been!

Victories over Bordeaux and Montpellier in 4-1 and 2-0 wins, each of which have been on dwelling soil at their Stade Raymond-Kopa, helped regular the ship though there are nonetheless issues over Angers’ outcomes and kind away from dwelling.

Angers have didn’t win any of their final 10 outings on the highway and certainly, the larger image reveals the guests have managed to muster only one away win from their final 18 away video games general, 9 of which additionally resulted in attracts.

Forwards, Eneme-Ella and Sima are each lacking by means of accidents however neither of them featured in Angers’ opening sport with Nantes which resulted in a 0-0 draw.

Each Auxerre and Angers might due to this fact be blissful to accept a degree apiece right here.