Nantes has enough to feed regrets against PSG! Beyond the red card – canceled since – totally surreal given by Tony Chapron to Diego Carlos, the Canaries had almost managed to equalize without a questionable offside reported by the referee. While the Parisians have generally dominated the debate, the FCNA has somehow justified its current 5th place and proved that it was not usurped. A news that will not delight the Toulouse, current 19th of the championship and currently struggling. Beaten in Saint-Etienne in a meeting with 6 points, the men of Pascal Dupraz can nevertheless retain their good performance, which would have deserved well more than a setback to Geoffroy-Guichard. And if the ranking hierarchy was jostled and the TFC managed to make a result against the 5th?
Our Bet Explained
3 of Toulouse’s last four home games ended with a Toulouse success, and without conceding a goal: against Caen (2-0), Bordeaux (2-0) and Nice (1-0).
At home, Toulouse has conceded only 7 goals in 9 games and has the second defense of Ligue 1 on his land, tied with OM, Guingamp and PSG.
The displacements from Nantes since mid-October are far from having been successful: defeat at Tours in the Coupe de la Ligue, at Dijon (0-1), Paris (1-4) and Rennes (1-2) in the league , draws at Bordeaux and Saint-Etienne then in perdition … Only a recent victory obtained in the 90th minute in Amiens comes to embellish this picture.
In Saint-Etienne, we felt a Toulouse formation well in legs and interesting in the game It will have missed them only a little realism and success – a goal was denied for an offside of a few centimeters – to leave with a draw or victory that would not have been stolen from Saint-Etienne!
Nantes remains one of the best defenses of L1 and Toulouse sometimes had trouble making the game (0-0 at home against Metz and Saint-Etienne in particular). A draw is still to be considered.
Our prediction Toulouse FC Nantes
Toulouse has delivered a good performance in Saint-Etienne and should not stay 19th long if he manages to reproduce this type of performance and to be a little more realistic. Beware of the blow for Nantes which has certainly been over-revved during the first half of the season and could suffer a setback after its big match against Paris!