Match Report
The table read 12th (PIF, 12 pts) against 10th (HJS Akatemia, 18 pts), 6 points apart. On recent form PIF sat only 31st league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 12th overall. Per game in the league, PIF were scoring 1.14 and conceding 2.64, HJS Akatemia 1.27 and 2.05, against a competition average of 1.67 goals per team per game.
Four consecutive defeats weighed on PIF.
The match was played at Stade René Gaillard in Niort (capacity 10,406). The referee was V. Lehtovaara, with 43 matches in our database and 1.8 yellows per game on average. Half-time and full-time told different stories: PIF led 2-1 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-3.