Sports Mole previews Wednesday’s Ligue 1 clash between Auxerre and Toulouse, including predictions, team news and possible lineups.
Ligue 1 continues as Auxerre host Toulouse at Stade de L’Abbe Deschamps on Wednesday evening, with both sides having endured differing starts to 2023.
Auxerre fell to a disappointing defeat in their first league game of this calendar year, whereas Toulouse have recorded convincing wins in both Ligue 1 and Coupe de France so far this month.
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Auxerre have not tasted victory within 90 minutes in any competitive form since October, quite the alarming statistic for supporters – albeit there was a month-long break for the World Cup in Qatar.
It took penalty kicks to advance past lower-league side Dunkerque in the Coupe de France on Sunday evening, with Auxerre’s third-tier opponents twice breaching Donovan Leon in the visitors’ goal.
Before that, a 1-0 defeat to Nantes on New Year’s Day made any resolutions of an unbeaten January unreachable and left Christophe Pelissier‘s men 18th in the league standings, two points from…
