France Ligue2 Brest - Valenciennes
Valenciennes remain without Roudet and Kabore, they do get Ciss and Diarra back, but that is immediately offset by the loss of Edouard Butin and Da Costa and their three goals will be missed amongst a team who have scored just twice in six starts and none at all in almost 400 minutes of football . Confidence is at a very low ebb and Brest is never an easy place to come looking to restore it. Brest will be buoyed by two goals and a cleansheet at Creteil last Friday and whilst that had much to do with their opponents injury woes, they will take heart from that and also that they hit top form at this stage of last season, going 14 games unbeaten in the build up to Christmas, keeping 11 clean sheets. Only change for them from last week is the absence of fringe forward Alexandre Alphonse, which is not an issue. They travel to leaders Dijon next week and will be very focused on the three points today to stay in touch with the top three and take as much pressure as possible off the trip to Burgundy.
Brest: Hartock, Léon - Belaud, Falette, Brillault, Lorenzi, Keïta - Pelé, Sankoh, Jacob, Grougi, Battocchio, Tié Bi - Koubemba, Sea, Joseph-Monrose, Adnane.
Valenciennes: Charruau, Perquis - Abdelhamid, Aloé, Ciss, Nery, Nestor - Baradji, Diarra, Enza-Yamissi, Fulgini, Mbenza, Tameze - Ndao, Nguette, Slidja.
Brest -0.75 ball 2.25 asian line/Sportmarket.
Valenciennes remain without Roudet and Kabore, they do get Ciss and Diarra back, but that is immediately offset by the loss of Edouard Butin and Da Costa and their three goals will be missed amongst a team who have scored just twice in six starts and none at all in almost 400 minutes of football . Confidence is at a very low ebb and Brest is never an easy place to come looking to restore it. Brest will be buoyed by two goals and a cleansheet at Creteil last Friday and whilst that had much to do with their opponents injury woes, they will take heart from that and also that they hit top form at this stage of last season, going 14 games unbeaten in the build up to Christmas, keeping 11 clean sheets. Only change for them from last week is the absence of fringe forward Alexandre Alphonse, which is not an issue. They travel to leaders Dijon next week and will be very focused on the three points today to stay in touch with the top three and take as much pressure as possible off the trip to Burgundy.
Brest: Hartock, Léon - Belaud, Falette, Brillault, Lorenzi, Keïta - Pelé, Sankoh, Jacob, Grougi, Battocchio, Tié Bi - Koubemba, Sea, Joseph-Monrose, Adnane.
Valenciennes: Charruau, Perquis - Abdelhamid, Aloé, Ciss, Nery, Nestor - Baradji, Diarra, Enza-Yamissi, Fulgini, Mbenza, Tameze - Ndao, Nguette, Slidja.
Brest -0.75 ball 2.25 asian line/Sportmarket.
