Match Report
Istres went into the game 1st in the table on 45 points; Agde sat 5th on 35 — a 10-point gap. Istres had been under-performing their position — 8th on five-round form against 1st in the table. Per game in the league, Istres were scoring 1.58 and conceding 1.04, Agde 1.79 and 1.5, against a competition average of 1.4 goals per team per game.
Recent form was uneven: 12/15 points for Istres, 6/15 for Agde.
The match was played at Stade Parsemain in Fos-sur-Mer (capacity 12,500). F. Della Tomasina took charge of the match — our records show 41 games refereed with an average of 1.1 yellow cards per game. On the scoreboard, Agde led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-1 the final score.