Dunkerque vs AC Ajaccio Prediction & Betting Tips (23 January)

Nothing is going well for Dunkirk which has just experienced an elimination on the field of Puy-en-Velay 2-1, a National 2 team, this Saturday from the 1/16 finals of the Coupe de France. A big blow to the head for the northern club which was counting on taking a breath of fresh air in the cup and forgetting the difficulties of the championship. The Portuguese technician of the USLD, Luis Castro, is disappointed and the latter will have to find the right words to re-motivate a group which seems resigned. Dunkerque occupies 19th place with a significant delay of 8 points on Concarneau, 16th and first non-relegation. Maintaining it will be hard to achieve for Ghrieb's partners 2 goals who have still not won a single match at the Marcel-Tribut stadium! Unable to win for 6 days 2 draws and 4 defeats, the current 19th overall remains in the championship on 3 failures against Bastia 0-5, at Caen 1-0 and ahead of Bordeaux 0-2 then on 1 sharing of points at the 3rd , Grenoble 2-2.

AC Ajaccio should come to the North of France to grab points at Marcel-Tribut where the local team only took 2 points out of 30 distributed! The Corsicans are in the first part of the ranking, in 9th place, and are not far from 5th place with only 1 point and qualification for the final stages of this Ligue 2. The island club has lost its last 3 trips to Annecy 2-0, to leader Auxerre 2-0 and to Troyes 3-1. Defeat prohibited in the North of France for the Corsicans who won their last two home games against Laval 2-0 and Valenciennes 2-1.

Over the course of their previous 13 matches in the Ligue 2 second-tier, AC Ajaccio have been involved in a staggering 11 encounters in which at least one of the two goalkeepers has kept a clean sheet. Even more amazingly, perhaps, Dunkerque boast exactly the same record, so it would come as a major surprise were both teams to find the net in this clash.