Loyal fans at Stade Raymond Kopa haven’t witnessed many wins this season, with Angers SCO languishing in the 19th place. The guesting Montpellier will try to guard their higher league position in this match.
- Angers SCO have the most conceded goals (17) in Ligue 1
- Montpellier have scored more than double the goals of Angers SCO.
This has all the signs of an engaging fixture with lots of spark and bustle as both sides are well renewed since they last played a game. Bring it on!
Angers SCO form and stats
Angers SCO have played three Ligue 1 home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 1 point from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead. Regardless of arena the trend is looking very unhealthy for Angers with their four defeats in a row. Not since the Auxerre game, 28 days ago, have they avoided a loss.
No payout for Angers SCO in their previous match, an away game at Olympique Lyonnais that ended in defeat 0-5. Angers SCO were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one. Midfielder Bentaleb was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.34 (out of ten) in that game. Bentaleb dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 36 successful passes (of 44 total).
Preceding that match was the home game against Reims that was lost 2-4.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Angers SCO have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 8 matches with the results: Won 2, drawn 0 and lost 6.
Goals keep flowing in this team's league fixtures, with 5 in a row featuring three or more goals (over 2.5).
Angers have conceded 7 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Montpellier form and stats
Montpellier are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Ligue 1, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).
Home advantage was not enough for Montpellier in their previous game as they lost hosting Lille, 1-3. Wahi has bagged at least one goal for the away side three matches in a row. The skill! Sacko was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.4. The defender Sacko won 6 of 8 duels.
Before that, Montpellier secured a home win against Ajaccio with the score 2-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 11 similar matches played by Montpellier in our archives, and the results are: 7 wins for Montpellier, 3 draws and 1 defeat.
It's early days yet, but Montpellier has scored 9 and conceded 5 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Angers SCO three wins, three draws and Montpellier four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  S. Boufal 2 goals |  L. Diony 2 goals |
Angers SCO missing players
Montpellier missing players
| Angers SCO | Montpellier | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 7 | 9 | 16 |
| 17 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 12 |
| 83% | 67% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 83% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 67% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 67% |
| 17% | 33% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 33% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3.5 | 3.3 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| 6.7 | 5 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 8 | 6.8 |
| 2.2 | 2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 9.7 | 10.7 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 9.5 | 10.8 |
| 3.7 | 5.3 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 8 | 5.5 | 5 |
| 27% | 19% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 88% | 82% | 53% |
| 16.5 | 12 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 15.5 | 16.2 |
| 8.5 | 5.7 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 6.5 | 5.2 |
- All of Montpellier's away-matches have had more than 4,5 goals.
- Angers SCO have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Angers SCO have the most conceded goals (17) in Ligue 1
- Angers SCO have the most conceded goals in the first half (9) in Ligue 1
- Angers SCO have the the worst goal difference (-11) in Ligue 1
- Angers SCO have yet to win a game.
- Montpellier have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Montpellier have scored in all their matches so far.
- Montpellier have scored more than double the goals of Angers SCO.
- Montpellier have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Montpellier haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | PSG | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 20 | 16 |
| 2 | Olympique Marseille | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 16 |
| 3 | Lens | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 14 |
| 4 | Olympique Lyonnais | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 13 |
| 5 | Lille | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 6 | Lorient | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| 7 | Montpellier | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | Clermont | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -2 | 9 |
| 9 | Rennes | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 10 | Monaco | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | -3 | 8 |
| 11 | Troyes | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -3 | 7 |
| 12 | Auxerre | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -4 | 7 |
| 13 | Nantes | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 6 |
| 14 | Reims | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -3 | 6 |
| 15 | Toulouse | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -4 | 5 |
| 16 | Nice | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -4 | 5 |
| 17 | Brest | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -8 | 5 |
| 18 | Strasbourg | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 4 |
| 19 | Angers SCO | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | -11 | 2 |
| 20 | Ajaccio | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 1 |
