Caen 2-1 Valenciennes: result and report
Ligue 2 · Saturday 18 March 2023
Result
Caen 2-1 Valenciennes
Ligue 2 · Saturday 18 March 2023, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Caen 2-1 Valenciennes: match report
Caen beat Valenciennes 2-1 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 18 March 2023. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Bilal Brahimi opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Caen's goals came from Bilal Brahimi (9') and Alexandre Mendy (77'). Valenciennes scored through Ugo Bonnet (30').
Discipline: Caen received 3 yellow cards; Valenciennes received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Caen were 7th on 40 points from 27 and Valenciennes 13th on 33 points from 27. Caen went on to finish that season 5th with 59 points, and Valenciennes 15th with 45.
Caen lined up in a 4-3-3 and Valenciennes in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ugo Bonnet of Valenciennes (7.8), ahead of Alexandre Mendy (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Caen win, 5 draws and 4 for Valenciennes.
Going into the match Caen's last five read L-D-W-W-D and Valenciennes's D-D-D-D-L.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Bilal Brahimi
- 30'Goal · Ugo Bonnet
- 45+2'Yellow card · Alexandre Mendy
- 63'Yellow card · Hugo Vandermersch
- 77'Goal · Alexandre Mendy
- 90+3'Yellow card · M. Hafid
Head-to-head
Team news
Caen line-up (4-3-3)
Anthony Mandréa, Hugo Vandermersch, Ibrahim Cissé, Romain Thomas, Ali Abdi, Anton Salétros, Hianga'a Mbock, Bilal Brahimi, Yoann Court, Alexandre Mendy, Godson Kyeremeh
Valenciennes line-up (4-2-3-1)
Stefan Bajić, Allan Linguet, Mathieu Debuchy, Buatu, Quentin Lecoeuche, Julien Masson, Noah Diliberto, Aymen Boutoutaou, Ugo Bonnet, Salim Ben Seghir, Adrian Grbic