RC Strasbourg Alsace 5-1 AJ Auxerre: Ligue 1 Match Report, 1 November 2026

Strasbourg had lost four in a row. Then Auxerre came to the Meinau: RC Strasbourg Alsace 5-1 AJ Auxerre. It was only 1-0 at half-time; the second half went 4-1, so a narrow game at the interval became a rout after it.

No prediction was published for it. It came and went over the turn of the month, while the site was on hold.

The two clubs arrived with identical goal records, 12 scored and 18 conceded, and three points between them. Auxerre were 12th on 10 points; Strasbourg were 16th on 7, the losing run made up of 2-1 defeats at Paris FC and Nice, a 3-1 at home to Paris Saint-Germain and a 3-0 at Rennes.

Strasbourg's season had been one of extremes: beaten 4-0 at Marseille on the opening night, 6-2 winners at Troyes in September, and not one clean sheet in eight games. They still have not kept one, because Auxerre scored, but five goals is their second-highest total of the season after the six at Troyes.

Auxerre's difficulty had been away from home. Their four away league games had brought one win, 3-1 at Le Havre, and three defeats in which they conceded 12: 5-2 at Lens, 3-1 at Lyon and 4-1 at Rennes. They had scored in every league game this season and did so again here, but this was the second time they had conceded five.

The fixture had gone Strasbourg's way before. They were unbeaten in the four meetings on record, 3-1 and 3-0 at home and 1-0 and 0-0 at Auxerre, and Auxerre had scored once in those four games.

Strasbourg go to 10 points from nine games and their goal difference from minus six to minus two. Auxerre stay on 10, now from nine, and drop from minus six to minus ten. Three points apart before kick-off, the clubs are now level on points, with Strasbourg eight goals better off.

Last season Strasbourg finished eighth on 53 points with a goal difference of plus 11, or 1.56 points a game. Ten from nine is 1.11. The losing run had left them on seven from eight, 0.88 a game, so this is a step back towards last season's level rather than a return to it.

Auxerre were 15th on 34 points last season, exactly one a game, and ten from nine is a little ahead of that. Their away record, though, now reads one win and four defeats, with 18 goals conceded in five games, against seven points from four at home. That split is the clearest pattern in their nine games so far.

A single result in early November moves the numbers without settling anything. What it does end is the run of defeats that had left Strasbourg 16th.