About Match
The table reads 16th (Clermont, 5 pts) against 18th (Laval, 4 pts), 1 points apart. Laval have been over-performing their table position on recent form: 14th in the league over the last five rounds against 18th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Clermont 0.5 scored and 0.83 conceded per game, Laval 1.17 and 2.17, with the league averaging 1.23. A win here leaves Clermont on 8 points and up to 8th, other results permitting.
Level finishes have become the habit for Clermont: four in a row. Laval have been beaten in three straight games.
9 meetings are on record — 5 won by Clermont, 0 by Laval, 4 drawn, at 2.56 goals per meeting. Only 33% of these meetings ended in a home win. Clean sheets are rare between these two — both scored in 67% of the meetings.
Stade Gabriel Montpied in Clermont-Ferrand, capacity 11,980, hosts the game.