Sochaux take on the visitors Bourg Peronnas at "Stade Auguste Bonal" in the round one of the French Ligue 2 of 2017/2018 season. The game will be played in Montbeliard on Friday, July 28th.
Last season Sochaux sit in the mid-table of the French second football tier neither having claimed for promotion to the Ligue 1 nor having been under the threat of relegation to the National. The side picked up 46 points with 38 goals for and 43 goals against in 38 matchdays. This summer "Les Lionceaux" played five friendly clashes having got runaway victories in the first two encounters vs. Altach 5:0 and vs. Aarau 2:0, while they were beaten in next three by: Dijon 2:3, Grasshoppers 1:2 and Strasbourg 2:3.
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Bourg Peronnas ended last season settling near the hosts of the matchup. The team occupied the 15th place in the table with 44 points taken and 49-58 goal difference in 2016/2017 season. In summer Bourg Peronnas conducted two friendly battles resulting in 1:3 loss to Lyon and 2:0 win over Dijon.
The head-to-heads history of Sochaux and Bourg Peronnas counts for four clashes covering two draws and one victory of each side. And not a single time the opponents have managed to combine more than three goals scored in those battles. I believe that this time as well the French teams will show their usual defending football with minimum goals scored. This is a start of the season and, generally speaking, it is quite unpredictable what the opponents will be able to show, even though, none of them is likely to fight for the promotion to the elite division in this season, the teams do not want to open the season with a failure.
Prediction for the match: Under 3.0 goals scored.
