| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bastia | 15 | W1 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9/15 | 6-0 |
| Istres | 15 | D1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10/15 | 8-4 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 3 finished meetings (2010-11-20 – 2019-01-12) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-12 | Istres | 0-1 | Bastia |
| 2012-05-18 | Istres | 1-0 | Bastia |
| 2010-11-20 | Istres | 2-0 | Bastia |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bastia | 1 | 25 | 64 | 54 | DDWWW | 2 | -1 |
| Istres | 8 | 25 | 34 | -1 | DLLLW | 10 | -2 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2019-05-18
On paper the standings were lopsided — Bastia 1st with 64 points, Istres 8th with 34, 30 apart. Against a league average of 1.43 goals per team per game, Bastia ran at 2.52 scored and 0.36 conceded, Istres at 1.24 and 1.28.
Bastia were unbeaten in 15.
Stade Armand-Césari in Furiani, capacity 16,078, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, Bastia led 2-0 at the break; 1 second-half goal set the final 3-0.
