The
new week started well with Nantes beating Dijon 2-0 (see below) and hopefully that
will set the tone for the next six days. I am going to do things
differently today and will have a follow up email at exactly 19.00 UK
time , 45 minutes before kick off, this will probably include two full
previews and two slections, hopefully with confirmed starting elevens/
squads.
Three
matches to discuss in this email, one each from the Championship,
League 2 and the Champions League, there are a LOT of interesting games
today and I could easily have previewed double that number in this email
alone.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
I can start with a few words
about the Spartak Moscow-Benfica
match, no strong opinion from me on this one, but it definitely looks
likely to provide entertainment and as it gets the evening off to an
early start and I know many of you will be watching, there might be an
"in play" angle. Having lost their two opening matches, including here
against Celtic , Spartak surely have to look for all three points
tonight, their european record here at the Stadion Luzhniki is
incredible, incredibly bad that is, posting just one win from 15 home
matches at the UEFA Champions League group stage on their synthetic
pitch. Given that conditions, playing surface, travel, weather, often
strongly favour them, that is an amazing statistic. This Spartak team
might also have a bit of a soft underbelly too .....
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SHAKHTAR DONETSK- CHELSEA
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LEAGUE 2:
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Good Luck.
Both
defences look vunerable today, but Nantes at least have someone more
than capable of making use of these of these problems in striker Filip
Djordjevic ( 10-9-1) all nine goals came in his last seven starts and
you know I love a striker in form ! Just a very small bet for me one unit Nantes -0.75 ball 2.31 asian line.
LIGUE 2: FC NANTES- DIJON ( wriiten 23/10)
A
point for the visitors, three for the hosts would take either back into
the promotion places, so plenty to play for in front of the television
cameras.
Nantes
are unbeaten (3-2-0) on home soil, conceding only three goals, however
they have been left to stew on a 3-1 defeat at Gazelec for a very long
17 days and will be eager to make amends. Tonight they will be without
holding midfielder Lucas Deaux (7-0-2), key
left back Gabriel Cichero (8-0-0) just one point and four goals
conceded in the two matches he has sat out, striker Serge Gakpe (8-2-1)
and midfielder Fabrice Pancrate (8-1-2).
Dijon
have lost only once all season (4-5-1), that sole defeat was a heavy
4-2 loss at Niort two games back, they steadied things defensively with a
0-0 draw at home to highflying Angers, where they played 36 minutes
with ten men and 18 with just nine, another would serve them well
tonight, as they have scored in every away start so far. However, they
have a lengthy list of players missing too, with central defenders
Ousseynou Cisse (6-0-0), William Remy (5-0-1), midfielder Florent
Mollet (10-0-0), plus strikers Gregory Thil (4-1-0), Julio Tavares
(3-2-0), Brice Jovial (8-3-2) all out either injured or suspended. They
have conceded 4 goals in six with Cisse playing, seven in five without
him and aside from Benjamin Corgnet, who left to join Lorient last
month, only Raphael Caceres (9-2-0) apart from the missing strikers has
scored more than a single goal this season.
Nantes : Riou, Zelazny -
Alioui, Cissokho, Djilobodji, Madouni, Veigneau, Bessat, Eudeline,
Keita, Touré, Trébel, Veretout, Djordjevic, Lee, Mayenga.
Dijon : Reynet, Tchagouni - Diabaté,
Bamba, Souprayen, Paulle, Malouda, Varrault, Bérenguer, Sankharé, Paye,
Guerbert, Joufreau, Baradji, Koné, Caceres.
Good Luck.
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