In the 1 / 32th finals of the Coupe de France, Nantes is waiting for a meeting with second division Châteauroux. Will the team of Vahid Halilhodzic win after two defeats in two different competitions in the Coupe de France?
Nantes:
Under Miguel Cardoso, Nantes did not start well this season in the Ligue 1 and under the new trainer Vahid Halilhodzic the team is still trying to repair the damage incurred in the first quarter of the season. Halilhodzic has a positive balance with four wins, two draws and three defeats over his first nine games as Nantes coach. Despite this, Les Canaris are only fourteenth after seventeen games played, but the gap on the teams under the relegation streak is even less with four games.
The great star of the first half of the season at Nantes was of course Emiliano Sala. The Argentinian in his two previous seasons at Les Canaris was already responsible for twelve goals, a number that he already reached halfway through the season this season. Under Halilhodzic, the Argentine in the league is already responsible for eight goals (average 0.89 per game), but in his last five games Sala came to only one goal.
Châteauroux:
Last season, Châteauroux finished in a neat ninth place in the Ligue 2 with sixty points from 38 games and a goal difference of +0 (50-50), but this season it will be less in the Nicolas Usaï team. After the first half of this season, the team is thirteenth with a goal difference of -7 (14-21) and a lead of only five points on the relegation zone. In addition, only one point was taken from the last three games, which means that the second division team for the Nantes meeting can not be seen as a favorite.
The main problem at Châteauroux this season is the lack of scoring power. Oumaré Tounkara is the top scorer of his team after the first half of the season with only three hits in fifteen games (average 0.2 goal per game) and the striker is already three games dry. Maxime Barthelme, the player of Châteauroux who this season with a goal and three assists in most goals is involved, is already four games in a row dry, making it on paper a heavy game seems to be for Usaï his team.
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / NO @ 1.68
