Strasbourg vs Auxerre prediction: FRANCE: Ligue 1 betting tips on match 2025-01-04 14:00.
[p]After ending 2024 with successive 3-0 away victories in the league and cup, Strasbourg will be looking to pick up where they left off when they take on Auxerre in their first game of 2025 this Sunday. They will also be targeting a fourth successive clean sheet, a huge improvement on their previous 13 matches which brought only one shutout.[/p]
[p]Hosting Auxerre, the Alsace outfit have not conceded in any of their last three Ligue 1 H2Hs and are unbeaten in their last five H2Hs across all competitions. But without a home win since October and beginning the new year only four points above the relegation play-off spot, Liam Rosenior will be keen to improve his side’s results at the Stade de la Meinau to ease any worries.[/p]
[p]Auxerre have not only got a poor recent top-flight record in Strasbourg, but have picked up just four points on the road all season. Fortunately for AJA, their home games have yielded 17 points but only Rennes have a larger points differential in the division and their away form will need to improve if they are to challenge for the European places.[/p]
[p]Overall it was a disappointing end to 2024 for Auxerre, who failed to win any of their four games (D2, L2) across all competitions in December and concluded the month with a 1-0 home defeat against second-tier Dunkerque in the Coupe de France. Christophe Pélissier will be hoping that the two-week break following that fixture will help to refresh his team and get them back to their November form of three victories, including an away win at high-flying Marseille.[/p]
[p]Key battle: After sitting out the cup victory, goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic will be targeting his third clean sheet in a row and his fourth across his last six games for club and country. Auxerre found the net in only one game last month and Gaëtan Perrin opened the scoring in that fixture. The winger has already equalled the number of goal involvements (G5, A4) from Auxerre’s last top-flight campaign and scored their winner against Strasbourg in 2022.[/p]
[p]Hot streak: Auxerre have lost each of their last seven Ligue 1 matches played in the month of January![/p]
[p][i]Written by Tom Penn[/i][/p]