Nice vs Auxerre prediction: FRANCE: Ligue 1 betting tips on match 2025-03-13 19:45.
[p]Third-placed Nice’s run of four successive wins in Ligue 1 ended on Sunday as they lost 2-0 at home to Lyon, but encouragingly, the gap to second-placed Marseille is only three points. Franck Haise’s men have the opportunity to make amends at the Allianz Riviera on Friday, although failure to get at least a draw here against Auxerre would mean back-to-back league defeats for the first time since the former Lens boss took charge in the summer. [/p]
[p]Nice’s recent record at home to Auxerre would suggest that won’t happen, as the Eaglets are unbeaten in the last five such H2Hs (W4, D1), but they did lose this season’s reverse fixture 2-1. Posting a losing H2H double seems a long-shot given Nice’s remarkable home record this term, as last week’s 2-0 defeat against Lyon is their only Ligue 1 home loss of the campaign (W8, D3).[/p]
[p]Auxerre jumped into 11th place last weekend with an impressive 2-0 victory at Reims and now have the chance to win consecutive Ligue 1 away games for the first time since October 2010! Sunday’s triumph was especially significant because of the clean sheet gained, which was AJA’s first on the road in the French top flight since earning promotion last summer. [/p]
[p]In Christophe Pélissier, Auxerre have a manager used to overachievement and he most recently got Lorient into Ligue 1 and then kept them there. It looks like he will replicate those Brittany accomplishments in Burgundy, with his current side sitting ten points clear of the bottom three with nine matches of the league campaign remaining. [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Mohamed-Ali Cho scored Nice’s very first goal of the season against Auxerre in August, but the forward has only found the net once in Ligue 1 since the start of October. At the other end of the pitch, Hamed Traoré became the first Auxerre player to score ten goals in a top-flight campaign since Dennis Oliech in 2011/12 when he netted their second goal against Reims.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Auxerre have not trailed at half-time in their last seven matches (HT: W4, D3)[/p]
[p][i]Written by Alex Bowmer[/i][/p]