Ligue 1 – Brest take on Reims
Next Sunday at 3:00pm GMT, on matchday 13 of the Ligue 1, we will see Brest play Reims at the Stade Francis-Le Blé.
Visitors Reims, will be keen to maintain or improve their League position, (fourteenth), when they face seventeenth placed Brest.
It’s nine points so far for Brest this season, going into this game
Having lost to Clermont Foot in their last game, Bruno Grougi’s men must reset and try to gain a positive result in this match.
Also, Bruno Grougi’s Brest have lost six of their last nine meetings this season. With a seventeenth position in the league and 2 wins, 7 losses and 3 draws, they currently have nine points in the League having won two matches, drawn three games, and lost seven meetings.
Playing at home, Brest have drawn two matches and lost three fixtures.
Winning this fixture will see Brest on 12 points.
Injury and illness have depleted Bruno Grougi’s Brest and they will likely be missing one key personnel for Sunday’s match.
Reims’ campaign so far has seen them accrue 12 points this season
Reims will take a huge positive from their recent 2-1 win against Auxerre at Stade Auguste Delaune.
Also, a draw statistic of six in 10 games is not all bad, but unfortunately will not bring the success Will Still’s men wishes for ultimately. With 12 points, they currently sit fourteenth in the League. The breakdown for the team’s record is 2 wins, 4 losses and 6 draws having won two meetings, drawn six matches, and lost four games.
Reims’ away record is remarkable and poses a significant threat to Brest. In the 6 games they’ve played on the road this season, they have so far won one game, drawn three fixtures, and lost two games.
A win in this fixture, would take Reims’s points from 12 to 15, so far this season.
Reims’s ever growing list of players missing due to injury or illness to be a concern for Will Still, ahead of this Sunday’s fixture against their opponents.
Brest v Reims – Head-to-Head.
Regarding their historical duels previous encounters between these two teams havetended to favour the local team when it comes to wins.Brest have recorded eight wins and nine draws. Further, the two sides have played out draws in two of their last three matches encounters. Their most recent encounter in this competition was February 2022 and the score line ended up with a 1-1 draw.
Performance Report
For Brest, Romain Del Castillo is a top performing player who has scoredthree goals in 12 League games this season, while Folarin Balogun contributed withseven goals in 12 League fixtures this campaign for Reims.
Other standout players for Brest are Romain Del Castillo and Jeremy Le Douaron with three goals both and for Reims are Folarin Balogun and Junya Ito with seven goals each.
