Match Report
In the standings it was Police Benin 10th on 42 points, AS Cotonou 8th on 46 — separated by 4. AS Cotonou ranked 2nd in the league on five-round form, well above their 8th table position. Scoring rates set the scale: Police Benin 0.88 scored and 0.94 conceded per game, AS Cotonou 0.94 and 0.69, with the league averaging 0.89.
AS Cotonou had gone 5 games without a win.
GioScore's database holds 5 meetings between the two: 0 for Police Benin, 3 for AS Cotonou and 2 drawn, at 1.2 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 40% of meetings won. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 0% of the meetings.
The venue was Stade René Pleven d'Akpakpa, with room for 10,000 spectators.