Troyes and Reims are going to clash on Sunday the 3rd of April at 3:00 pm in the 30th week of the Ligue 1. The match is going to be played in Troyes at the Stade de l’Aube. The chosen referee is Ruddy Buquet.

Troyes sits in the 15th position in the table with 29 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Saint-Étienne in its last match in the Ligue 1. So far, it has won 7 times, draw 8 times, and lost 14 times.​​

Reims sits in the 12th place in the league with 36 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against Olympique Lyonnais in its last match in the Ligue 1. Until now, it has won 8 times, draw 12 times, and lost 9 times.​​

Line-ups predictions​

These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.​

Troyes​

Troyes has mostly adopted the 5-4-1 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 24.14%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 5-4-1 (7 times), 3-4-2-1 (6 times), 3-5-1-1 (4 times), 3-4-3 (3 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 5-3-2 (2 times), 4-4-2 (2 times), 4-4-1-1 (once), 4-5-1 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).

Bruno Irles is expected to play against Reims with the following players: G. Gallon, E. Palmer-Brown, Y. Koné, Y. Salmier, O. El Hajjam, X. Chavalerin, R. N’Guessan, F. Tardieu and I. Ugbo.

If the line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Troyes would be 28.11.

There are doubts about the presence of G. Biancone and L. Mothiba.

Bruno Irles will probably not be able to employ I. Kabore, K. Azamoum, L. Ilić, M. Baldé and H. Suk because of injury.

Reims​

Reims has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (5 times or 17.24%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (5 times), 4-4-2 (3 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 5-3-2 (3 times), 3-4-1-2 (3 times), 4-3-3 (3 times), 3-1-4-2 (3 times), 3-4-3 (2 times), 3-5-1-1 (once), 4-4-1-1 (once), 5-4-1 (once) and 3-5-2 (once).

Óscar García Junyent is expected to play against Troyes with the following players: P. Rajković, Y. Abdelhamid, W. Faes, M. Busi, T. Foket, G. Konan, V. Berisha, M. Munetsi, A. Matusiwa, I. Kebbal and F. Hornby.

Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Reims would be 26.36.

Óscar García Junyent will probably not be able to employ A. Gravillon, J. Cajuste, E. Toure, H. Ekitike and A. Zeneli because of injury.