Brest vs Angers - prediction, team news, lineups

Stade Brestois 29 volition big Angers SCO astatine the Stade Francis-Le Ble connected Sunday successful their last lucifer of the 2025–26 Ligue season, with some sides looking to extremity their campaigns connected a affirmative note.

The lucifer brings unneurotic 2 teams successful hunt of stability, arsenic the location broadside purpose to drawback retired of mediocre signifier successful beforehand of their supporters, portion the visitors are already guaranteed a mid-table decorativeness aft securing their information from relegation.

Match preview

Despite suffering 3 consecutive league defeats, Brest person already secured their Ligue 1 presumption heading into the last crippled of the season, though their mediocre signifier continued successful midweek erstwhile they conceded 3 goals wrong the opening 20 minutes successful a decision to Strasbourg that extended their winless tally to 8 matches.

Eric Roy’s broadside person collected conscionable 2 points from a imaginable 24 since March, with their past triumph coming successful a 2-0 location triumph implicit Le Havre connected March 8, which besides marked the extremity of an awesome six-match unbeaten tally that included 4 victories, 2 draws and a notable triumph implicit Olympique Marseille.

Although Brest’s caller signifier has been disappointing, they person remained comparatively beardown astatine Stade Francis-Le Ble, suffering lone 2 location defeats since February, a 4-3 nonaccomplishment against Rennes and Wednesday’s 2-1 decision to Strasbourg.

The latest setback against Le Racing besides ensured they surpassed the fig of league defeats they suffered during the full 2024-25 home campaign, taking their full to 15.

The Pirates person astatine slightest remained accordant successful onslaught connected location ungraded successful 2026, failing to people successful lone 1 lucifer astatine Stade Francis-Le Ble, which came successful a 2-0 decision to Toulouse successful precocious January.

Angers caput into the last play of the Ligue 1 play sitting 13th successful the table with 35 points, 4 wide of 16th-placed OGC Nice, meaning Alexandre Dujeux’s broadside person already secured their top-flight presumption careless of this weekend’s result.

Les Noirs et Blancs are enduring a hard spell aft going 8 successive Ligue 1 matches without a triumph and managing conscionable 1 triumph successful their past 12 outings, with that lone occurrence coming successful a 1-0 distant triumph against Nantes astatine the commencement of March.

That mediocre series followed a overmuch brighter commencement to February, erstwhile Angers secured back-to-back Ligue 1 victories for the 3rd clip during the 2025-26 campaign, but their signifier has dramatically declined since wins implicit Metz and Toulouse.

Since then, Angers person picked up lone six points from a imaginable 36 to permission themselves second-bottom successful the signifier table, portion their distant performances person been peculiarly worrying, with the nine winning conscionable 3 league matches each play and losing each of their past 3 distant games since the March triumph implicit Nantes.

Angers were beaten 2-0 successful the reverse fixture backmost successful September, and their past triumph astatine Stade Francis-Le Ble dates backmost to February 2020 erstwhile they secured a constrictive 1-0 win.

Brest Ligue 1 form:

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Angers Ligue 1 form:

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Team News

Brest volition beryllium without respective players for their last Ligue 1 fixture of the campaign, with defender Soumaila Coulibaly unavailable due to the fact that of an ongoing shin injury, portion guardant Mama Balde besides appears improbable to diagnostic aft precocious cutting abbreviated a grooming session.

Captain Brendan Chardonnet remains a uncertainty aft missing the past 2 matches against PSG and Strasbourg, though the Brest defender has resumed afloat grooming pursuing a rib injury, portion Junior Dina-Ebimbe is besides being monitored up of the last matchday.

There is much affirmative quality for Brest regarding Bradley Locko, with the left-back expected to instrumentality to the squad aft an injury-hit play successful clip for the club’s last crippled successful beforehand of the Stade Francis-Le Ble supporters.

Angers besides question with respective wounded concerns, arsenic midfielder Yassin Belkhdim has been ruled retired for the remainder of the play with an limb injury, portion Djibirin Harouna volition miss the remainder of the run due to the fact that of an ankle problem.

Marius Courcoul remains doubtful owed to a genu contented but could inactive feature, portion Goduine Koyalipou and Louis Mouton are besides fittingness concerns pursuing caller carnal problems, though Amine Sbai is disposable again aft serving a suspension.

Brest imaginable starting lineup:

Coudert; Lala, Chardonnet, Le Guen, Guindo; , Del Castillo, Tousart, Chotard, Magnetti, Lascary; Ajorque

Angers imaginable starting lineup:

Koffi; Louer, Camara, Lefort; Ekomie, Van den Boomen, Belkebla, Capelle, Raolisoa; Peter, Sbai

We say: Brest 2-2 Angers

Angers cannot decorativeness supra Brest connected the last time unless they overturn a importantly inferior extremity quality by winning with a borderline of much than 7 goals, though a triumph would let them to decorativeness level connected 38 points with the hosts.

Given however underwhelming and relaxed some teams person appeared successful caller weeks since securing their Ligue 1 survival, this contention has the consciousness of a emblematic end-of-season brushwood successful which some sides whitethorn already person their attraction connected the summertime break, making a gully look the astir apt outcome.

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