Match Report
The table gap was wide: 18 points between Angers SCO (2nd, 68 pts) and Bastia (13th, 50 pts). Bastia had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 9th in the league over the last five rounds against 13th overall. Per game in the league, Bastia were scoring 1.16 and conceding 1.26, Angers SCO 1.47 and 1.11, against a competition average of 1.23 goals per team per game.
5 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Bastia 1, draws 0, Angers SCO 4, at 2 goals per meeting. History backs the host here — 80% of the meetings won by the home side.
The venue was Stade Armand-Césari in Furiani, with room for 16,078 spectators. The referee was B. Lepaysant, with 80 matches in our database and 1.7 yellows per game on average. On the scoreboard, Bastia led 1-0 at the break; 1 second-half goal set the final 2-0.