📊 Form Guide

Montpellier

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Montpellier will be wanting a better result here after a 1-0 Ligue 1 defeat in their last game at the hands of Lyon.

In that game, Montpellier had 42% possession and 16 shots on goal with 6 on target. The scorer for Montpellier was Khalil Fayad (91' Own goal). At the other end, Lyon had 12 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.

It’s been all too rare in recent times that Montpellier have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Montpellier have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 12 goals along the way. Such a trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, of course.

Pre-game facts show that Montpellier:

• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 home league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 matches in the league.

Angers SCO

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Angers SCO come into this game after a 2-0 Ligue 1 win with the eclipse of Brest in their previous match.

In that match, Angers SCO had 38% possession and 7 shots at goal with 2 on target. For Angers SCO, the goals were scored by Esteban Lepaul (6') and Ibrahima Niane (95'). Brest had 12 shots on goal with 4 on target.

The trend of at least one team not managing to score in games involving Angers SCO has been noticeable recently. Examining their last 6 meetings reveals that this has happened 6 times. During those clashes, their opponents have hit a goal total of 6 and Angers SCO have scored 4.

Coming into this meeting, Angers SCO have left without a victory over Montpellier in away games against them for the last 7 matches in the league. They'll be keen to stop this run.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 20/09/2020 shows us that Montpellier have won 3 of them & Angers SCO 2, with the number of draws being 1.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 22 in all at an average of 3.67 goals per meeting.

The previous league meeting featuring the two was Ligue 1 match day 26 on 05/03/2023 which ended up with the score at Montpellier 5-0 Angers SCO.

That time, Montpellier managed 60% possession and 15 shots at goal with 8 on target. The goalscorers were Wahbi Khazri (2'), Téji Savanier (25', 51'), Faitout Maouassa (45') and Elye Wahi (73').

Angers SCO had 10 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

The referee was Benoît Millot.

📰 Team News: Montpellier

In our view, La Paillade could go for a 3-4-2-1 system for the game featuring Benjamin Lecomte, Becir Omeragic, Joris Chotard, Modibo Sagnan, Enzo Tchato, Issiaga Sylla, Jordan Ferri, Rabby Nzingoula, Mousa Al-Taamari, Teji Savanier and Akor Adams.

🗞️ Team News: Angers SCO

We believe Les Scoïstes seem likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 lineup, going with Yahia Fofana, Carlens Arcus, Emmanuel Biumla, Jordan Lefort, Florent Hanin, Jean Aholou, Haris Belkebla, Jim Allevinah, Himad Abdelli, Farid El Melali and Esteban Lepaul.

✨ Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Angers SCO are dangerous enough to breach the defence of this Montpellier team, although that probably shouldn’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We think that it’s going to be both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Montpellier at the end of the match. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

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Renata Leite, 16:11 12/01/2025