Match Report
17 points separated the sides: Bordeaux 3rd on 69, Sochaux 9th on 52. On recent form Sochaux sat only 20th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 9th overall. Per game in the league, Sochaux were scoring 1.42 and conceding 1.08, Bordeaux 1.34 and 0.71, against a competition average of 1.2 goals per team per game.
Sochaux carried a 5-game unbeaten run into this.
10 meetings are on record — 2 won by Sochaux, 5 by Bordeaux, 3 drawn, at 3.2 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 40% of the meetings went to the host. History points to goals: 60% of the meetings had three or more.
The venue was Stade Auguste-Bonal in Montbeliard, with room for 5,500 spectators. The referee was B. Lepaysant, with 80 matches in our database and 1.7 yellows per game on average. It was 1-1 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-1.