📊 Form Guide

St Etienne

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St Etienne will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 1-0 Ligue 1 defeat in their last game at the hands of Lyon.

In that match, St Etienne had 38% possession and 10 shots at goal with 6 on target. For their opponents, Lyon had 17 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Alexandre Lacazette (29') scored for Lyon.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games where St Etienne have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that St Etienne have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 10 goals during that time.

Montpellier

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Montpellier head into the clash after a 3-1 Ligue 1 win vs Brest in their most recent outing.

In that match, Montpellier had 32% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 8 on target. For Montpellier, the goals were scored by Arnaud Nordin (6'), Wahbi Khazri (12') and Tanguy Coulibaly (84'). At the other end, Brest had 19 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Jonas Martin (50') scored for Brest.

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 clashes featuring Montpellier, three or more goals have been hit. The overall average goals scored per match within that spell is 3.67, with the average number of goals for Montpellier being 1. That aside, we must now wait to see if the trend might be sustained in this upcoming game.

Going into this one, Montpellier have not won away from home in their last 6 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their past head to head clashes stretching back to 24/11/2019 tells us that St Etienne have won 2 of these & Montpellier 3, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

A combined total of 11 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 of them for Les Verts and 6 for La Paillade. That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

The previous league contest between these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 23 on 05/02/2022 which finished with the scoreline of St Etienne 3-1 Montpellier.

On that day, St Etienne had 61% possession and 27 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. The goals were scored by Romain Hamouma (82'), Arnaud Nordin (90') and Wahbi Khazri (93').

For their opponents, Montpellier had 3 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Elye Wahi (11') scored.

The match was refereed by Thomas Leonard.

ℹ️ Team News: St Etienne

We are thinking that Les Verts will possibly use a 4-1-4-1 system this time, handing starts to Gautier Larsonneur, Dennis Appiah, Dylan Batubinsika, Yunis Abdelhamid, Leo Petrot, Pierre Ekwah, Augustine Boakye, Louis Mouton, Benjamin Bouchouari, Zuriko Davitashvili and Ibrahim Sissoko.

📋 Team News: Montpellier

Montpellier boss Jean-Louis Gasset has multiple availability issues to deal with. Théo Sainte-Luce (Muscle injury), Khalil Fayad (Dead leg), Lucas Mincarelli (Muscle injury), Kiki Kouyaté (Knee injury), Glenn Ngosso (Cruciate ligament tear), Becir Omeragic (Hamstring injury) and Christopher Jullien (Cruciate ligament tear) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We are inclined to think that La Paillade seem likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, choosing Benjamin Lecomte, Enzo Tchato, Nikola Maksimovic, Modibo Sagnan, Issiaga Sylla, Rabby Nzingoula, Joris Chotard, Mousa Al-Taamari, Teji Savanier, Arnaud Nordin and Wahbi Khazri.

✨ Prediction

We feel that Montpellier will have to work hard as a team to hit the back of the net against this St Etienne outfit who should score at least once to gain the upper hand.

Our tip is therefore for a 1-0 victory for St Etienne when all is said and done.

Should be interesting.

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Andre Moura, 17:02 23/11/2024