Match Report
On the table this was a mismatch: Auxerre (1st, 74 pts) held a 23-point advantage over Grenoble Foot 38 (11th, 51 pts). Per game in the league, Grenoble Foot 38 were scoring 1.13 and conceding 1.16, Auxerre 1.89 and 0.95, against a competition average of 1.23 goals per team per game.
Auxerre were unbeaten in 10.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 1 Grenoble Foot 38 win, 2 for Auxerre, 2 draws, at 2.8 goals per meeting. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 60% of the meetings.
Stade des Alpes in Grenoble, capacity 20,068, hosted the game. It was 1-1 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-1.