Montpellier vs Nantes Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Montpellier

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Montpellier will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 1-2 Ligue 1 success over Reims.

In that game, Montpellier managed 47% possession and 12 shots at goal with 5 on target. For Montpellier, the goalscorers were Modibo Sagnan (26') and Mousa Tamari (87'). At the other end, Reims got 22 shots at goal with 4 on target. Emmanuel Agbadou (66') scored for Reims.

Montpellier have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, finding the back of the net in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They have totted up the amount of 11 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 9. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this match, of course.

Nantes

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Rennes in Ligue 1 competition, Nantes and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Nantes had 44% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 4 on target. On the other side, Rennes had 14 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Arnaud Kalimuendo (67'), Benjamin Bourigeaud (76') and Amine Gouiri (91') scored for Rennes.

The stats don’t lie, and Nantes have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 12 goals overall. Defensively, Nantes certainly have room for improvement.

Coming into this meeting, Nantes are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings dating back to 23/05/2021, both clubs have shared the honours with Montpellier winning 3 of those games, Nantes 3 and 0 being drawn in regulation time.

A sum of 15 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 7 of them from La Paillade and 8 belonging to Les Canaris. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.

The previous league meeting between these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 9 on 22/10/2023 when the final score was Nantes 2-0 Montpellier.

In that match, Nantes had 57% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. The goalscorers were Florent Mollet (44') and Kader Bamba (74').

For their opponents, Montpellier got 11 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Marc Bollengier.

ℹ️ Team News: Montpellier

The Montpellier manager Michel Der Zakarian will be happy not to have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this match with a fully injury-free group to choose from.

We are thinking that La Paillade look set to kick off with a 4-2-3-1 formation for this one and select Benjamin Lecomte, Enzo Tchato, Becir Omeragic, Modibo Sagnan, L. Mincarelli Davin, Leo Leroy, Joris Chotard, Arnaud Nordin, Teji Savanier, Tanguy Coulibaly and Wahbi Khazri.

🗞️ Team News: Nantes

Nantes boss Antoine Kombouaré has to currently contend with reduced team options. Bastien Meupiyou (Meniscus damage), Moses Simon (Broken fibula) and Ignatius Ganago (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be making appearances.

We reckon that Les Canaris will likely play in a 4-2-3-1 formation, giving starts to Alban Lafont, Jean-Kevin Duverne, J. Castelletto, Nicolas Pallois, Kelvin Amian, Samuel Moutoussamy, Pedro Chirivella, Florent Mollet, Moussa Sissoko, Abdoul Kader Bamba and Mostafa Mohamed.

💡 Prediction

We think that Nantes will really need to work well to put one past this Montpellier lineup who we think will end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

That’s why we have predicted a very competitive game with a 1-0 win for Montpellier at the end of the 90 minutes.

Looking forward to watching this one unfold.

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Renata Leite, 12:03 26/04/2024