AC Ajaccio vs Montpellier Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

AC Ajaccio

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AC Ajaccio won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 1-0 Ligue 1 defeat in their last game at the hands of Reims.

In that match, AC Ajaccio had 36% possession and 5 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. For their opponents, Reims had 12 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Jens-Lys Cajuste (95') scored for Reims.

It’s been seldom in recent times that AC Ajaccio have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that AC Ajaccio have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 11 goals in the process. Despite that, we must now wait to see if such a trend shall be replicated in this next match.

Coming into this clash, AC Ajaccio have not won against Montpellier in their last 3 league matches.

Montpellier

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Montpellier go into this game after a 5-0 Ligue 1 win versus Angers SCO in their most recent game.

In that game, Montpellier managed 60% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 8 on target. For Montpellier, goals were scored by Wahbi Khazri (2'), Téji Savanier (25', 51'), Faitout Maouassa (45') and Elye Wahi (73'). For their opponents, Angers had 10 shots at goal with 4 on target.

During their 6 previous matches, Michel Der Zakarian's Montpellier have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 11 times - giving them a goals per game average of 1.83.

Coming into this contest, Montpellier have left without a victory over AC Ajaccio in away games against them for the last 2 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings going back to 11/02/2012 shows that AC Ajaccio have won 1 of them & Montpellier 4, with the number of drawn games being 1.

In all, 15 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 3 of them from L 'Ours and 12 being from La Paillade. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.

The previous league fixture between these sides was Ligue 1 match day 5 on 31/08/2022 when it finished Montpellier 2-0 AC Ajaccio.

On that day, Montpellier managed 38% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The goals were scored by Arnaud Nordin (28') and Elye Wahi (77').

For their opponents, AC Ajaccio had 15 attempts on goal with 0 of them on target.

The referee was Bastien Dechepy.

🗞️ Team News: AC Ajaccio

It’s our opinion that L 'Ours look set to employ a 4-4-2 system for this one, utilising Benjamin Leroy, Mohamed Youssouf, Oumar Gonzalez, Fernand Mayembo, Mickael Alphonse, Cyrille Bayala, Mathieu Coutadeur, Florian Chabrolle, M. Youcef Belaili, Mounaim El Idrissy and Romain Hamouma.

📰 Team News: Montpellier

Montpellier boss Michel Der Zakarian has to choose a team with limited availability. Théo Sainte-Luce (Cruciate Ligament Rupture), Léo Leroy (Muscle Injury) and Dimitry Bertaud (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) are not able to play.

We are inclined to think that La Paillade seem likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 lineup with a starting lineup of Benjamin Lecomte, Falaye Sacko, Kiki Kouyate, Christopher Jullien, Issiaga Sylla, Joris Chotard, Jordan Ferri, Arnaud Nordin, Teji Savanier, Faitout Maouassa and Elye Wahi.

✨ Prediction

Our assessment is that Montpellier and AC Ajaccio won’t have much between them here, and goals could be hard to come by.

We’re therefore seeing a very even match with a 0-0 score at the end of this one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 02:36 08/03/2023