Valenciennes 3-1 Sochaux: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 25 August 2007

Result

Valenciennes 3-1 Sochaux

Ligue 1 · Saturday 25 August 2007, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Valenciennes 3-1 Sochaux: match report

Valenciennes won against Sochaux 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 25 August 2007. It was 2-1 at half-time.

J. Quercia opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Valenciennes's goals came from Yacine Bezzaz (11'), Éric Chelle (45') and Steve Savidan (75'). Sochaux scored through J. Quercia (6').

Discipline: Valenciennes received 2 yellow cards; Sochaux received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Valenciennes were 7th on 7 points from 4 and Sochaux 19th on 2 points from 4. Valenciennes went on to finish that season 13th with 45 points, and Sochaux 14th with 44.

Valenciennes lined up in a 4-4-2 and Sochaux in a 4-5-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Valenciennes wins, 1 draw and 1 for Sochaux.

Going into the match Valenciennes's last five read D-W-L-W and Sochaux's L-D-L-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · J. QuerciaSochaux · 0-1
  • 11'Goal · Yacine BezzazValenciennes · 1-1
  • 45'Goal · Éric ChelleValenciennes · 2-1
  • 53'Yellow card · Badara SèneSochaux
  • 55'Yellow card · Guillaume RippertValenciennes
  • 75'Goal · Steve SavidanValenciennes · 3-1
  • 89'Yellow card · Mody TraoréValenciennes

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Valenciennes 0, draws 1, Sochaux 1.

Team news

Valenciennes line-up (4-4-2)

Nicolas Penneteau, Guillaume Rippert, Rudy Mater, Carlos Sánchez, Yacine Bezzaz, José Saez, Steve Savidan, Gregory Pujol, A. Ouaddou, Geoffrey Doumeng, Éric Chelle

Sochaux line-up (4-5-1)

Teddy Richert, Maxime Josse, Stéphane Pichot, Stephane Dalmat, Mickael Isabey, Badara Sène, Nicolas Maurice-Belay, Julien Quercia, Mevlüt Erdinç, Romain Pitau, Bojan Jokić