Strasbourg vs Brest Prediction & Match Preview

• Brest are unbeaten in eleven straight Ligue 1 outings.
• Strasbourg enter this off the back of three consecutive league defeats.
• Seven of Brest’s last nine league matches ended with fewer than three goals scored.

Brest continued their fairytale campaign with a 1-0 home win over Marseille last Sunday. The win catapulted Les Pirates to the second position in the Ligue 1 standings. Head coach Erick Roy is doing a spectacular job with this group of players. The win over Marseille marked Brest’s 11th consecutive league outing without a defeat.

Roy’s men will be looking to extend this beautiful run on Saturday evening. They travel to the east of the country to take on Strasbourg in Matchday No 23. The hosts will enter the tie in completely different spirits. They suffered the third straight league defeat last weekend, falling 1-3 at home to in-form Lorient.

Strasbourg are 10th in the Ligue 1 table. However, they are only three points above the red zone. Head coach Patrick Vieira quickly needs to find a way to bring the obvious crisis in his team’s displays to an end. Le Racing are particularly struggling to keep things quiet at the back these days.

Recent Meetings

• These two teams shared spoils in a 1-1 stalemate in the reverse game in December last year at Stade Francis-Le Ble.
• Strasbourg will rely on a fine home record in this matchup. Le Racing won four, drew two, and lost only one of the previous seven home meetings with Brest.
• None of the previous four head-to-head matches between Strasbourg and Brest produced three or more goals.

Strasbourg vs Brest Prediction

Brest enter this in much higher spirits. Their back line has been spectacular in recent weeks. Les Pirates kept six clean sheets in the previous eight league matches. The story is completely different with Strasbourg whose players allowed eight goals in the previous three Ligue 1 defeats. Vieira’s men shipped three goals by the 50th minute of the last weekend’s home match against Lorient. We have to take the away victory pick at the lucrative 2.60 odds here.

The best alternative betting pick is Under 2.5 goals FT at the 1.66 odds. Brest limited the likes of Marseille to just two shots on target last weekend despite playing the final 25 minutes of the affair with ten men on the pitch. Les Pirates will also be without their main striker Steve Mounie on Saturday as Benin’s forward was the man who got sent off six days ago against Marseille. Only two of Brest’s last nine league games provided three or more goals.

Steffen Schmidt- February 21, 2024

Strasbourg vs Brest Betting Tips

Brest to win

OK

	2.61 Odds
	2.60 Odds

Under 2.5 goals

OK

1.68 Odds

Correct Score: Brest 2-0

OK

	12.00 Odds
	11.00 Odds