It's time for Ligue 1 and Montpellier - Clermont. In this super-preview you'll get numbers, previous results, analysis, trends and stories!
- Montpellier have yet to win a game at home.
- Clermont have yet to win a game.
Montpellier and Clermont should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Montpellier form and stats
Montpellier have played three Ligue 1 home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 2 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
The Montpellier goalkeeper Benjamin Lecomte is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 201 minutes without conceding a goal in the Ligue 1.
Happy days for Montpellier in their previous game, a fixture away at Lorient (placed 16th) that ended with a 3-0 victory. At last, a league win after four fixtures without. The gifted forward Adams bested all teammates in that game and received a match rating of 9.12 out of 10. Adams scored two goals, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
In the match before that, Montpellier hosted Rennes and drew the game 0-0.Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 5 goals have been conceded.
Clermont form and stats
The Ligue 1 season is young and Clermont have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far.
There were no winners in Clermont's previous match, the home game that ended 0-0 vs PSG (placed 5th). Diaw had red hot gloves after the game against PSG, shaping the outcome of the game with ten saves made. Goalkeeper Diaw got the top player rating of the team with 10.0/10. Diaw topped it up with a clean sheet.
Prior to that match, the Clermont manager Gastien faced defeat when travelling to Le Havre and losing 1-2.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Clermont when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 6 matches with the visitors losing 2 times, drawing 1 and winning 3 games.
{3 goals} so far away for Clermont, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 6. All from 3 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
Montpellier-Clermont H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Montpellier four wins, Clermont four wins, two draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  A. Adams 5 goals |  M. Al Tamari 3 goals |  A. Nordin 2 goals |
Montpellier missing players
Clermont missing players
| Montpellier | Clermont | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 12 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 6 | 12 |
| 86% | 67% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 57% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 43% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 29% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 43% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 57% |
| 3.7 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 7 | 7 |
| 4.4 | 3.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0.5 | 1.3 | 2.9 |
| 1.9 | 1.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13.1 | 15.7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 12.3 | 13.7 |
| 5.6 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4 |
| 31% | 25% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 27% | 18% |
| 13.1 | 14 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 8.7 | 11.3 |
| 5 | 5.3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4 | 5.7 |
- All of Clermont's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Clermont have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Clermont have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Clermont have yet to win a game.
- Montpellier have scored more than double the goals of Clermont.
- Montpellier have yet to win a game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Monaco | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 14 |
| 2 | Brest | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
| 3 | Reims | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 13 |
| 4 | Nice | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | PSG | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 12 |
| 6 | Rennes | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 7 | Lille | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 11 |
| 8 | Strasbourg | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -2 | 10 |
| 9 | Montpellier | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 10 | Le Havre | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 11 | Toulouse | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 12 | Olympique Marseille | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | -2 | 9 |
| 13 | Nantes | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 14 | Metz | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -6 | 8 |
| 15 | Lens | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 7 |
| 16 | Lorient | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 6 |
| 17 | Clermont | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -7 | 2 |
| 18 | Olympique Lyonnais | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -10 | 2 |
