Match Report
23 points separated the sides: Auxerre 1st on 74, Guingamp 9th on 51. Guingamp had been under-performing their position — 17th on five-round form against 9th in the table. Per game in the league, Auxerre were scoring 1.89 and conceding 0.95, Guingamp 1.16 and 1.05, against a competition average of 1.23 goals per team per game.
Auxerre carried an 11-game unbeaten run into this. The five-game form split read 11/15 points for Auxerre against 4/15 for Guingamp.
The head-to-head ledger counts 4 games: 1 Auxerre win, 3 for Guingamp, 0 draws, at 2 goals per meeting. Playing at home matters in this fixture: 75% of the meetings went to the host.
Stade de l'Abbé Deschamps in Auxerre, capacity 23,467, hosted the game. It was 1-1 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-1.