Toulouse vs Rennes
French Ligue 1
Date: Saturday, 18th March, 2017
Kick off at 19:00 UK Time
Venue: Stadium Municipal, Toulouse.
This game looks to be a difficult one to predict the outcome of, with both sides struggling desperately for wins in recent weeks. Rennes arrive in Toulouse with one of the worst away records in the division, having won just 7% of their matches on the road. The away side do however currently lie in 9th place, 2 points and 2 places above their rivals. Rennes’ problem all season long has been converting draws into wins and they have produced 11 stalemates from their 29 games, the most of any team in the league.
Goals have been an issue as well, scoring just 28 times so far. Giovanni Sio has been the only part regular source of that, notching a total of 7 times this season. If they are to drop out of the top-half of the table come the end of 2016/17 then this will be the main reason why. The talented Yoann Gourcuff has chipped in with regular assists, but has only managed to find the net on 4 occasions, albeit he has suffered injury problems recently.
Toulouse have fallen into the bottom half of the table after not winning for 4 games, a run going back to the early part of February when they beat Bastia 4-1. They will once again be looking to striker Martin Braithwaite, who has scored 10 goals so far. He has been helped by Sweden international Ola Toivonen. Toulouse’s home record has been another plus point of their campaign, winning 57% of matches in 2016/17.
Although both sides are not among the top scorers in Ligue 1 by any stretch, they are still capable of finding the net. We advise backing a bet of Both Teams To Score Yes which is valued at 21/20 with bet365.
For our correct score prediction we see the match ending in a 1-1 draw. That bet is priced at 5/1 also with bet365.
Toulouse vs Rennes: Head to Head Stats
Home or away Rennes has won 3 of the last 4 meetings between the two clubs. From the last 4 matches held at Toulouse the home team has just one victory. The last four matches have a success rate of 100% to have at least 3 goals in them. Home or away 4 from the last 5 matches have ended with both teams finding the back of the net.
Toulouse vs Rennes: Prediction
Another difficult fixture to predict this weekend, because both teams would be more than happy with a draw. But the simple fact is that Toulouse have looked good at home recently and are scoring goals. Rennes have one of the worst away records but do like coming here, but for this match we will opt in for the home team to secure all three points at minimum stakes.
Toulouse vs Rennes: Betting Tips
Toulouse to beat Rennes at 6/5
Anytime goal scorer: Martin Braithwaite (Toulouse) at 11/5.
