Football preview: Home supporters have big expectations when Monaco greet Montpellier

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Competition: France Ligue 1
Competition: Sun 24.October
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Louis II. (18523 seats)

Monaco are prepared for a new test after their 2-1 against PSV in the previous game. Montpellier are coming to visit!

Insights:
  • All of Monaco's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Montpellier have yet to win a game away.

These are active days for the hometeam, as they had a match only three days ago in the Europa League. That game was an away game at PSV, so at least Monaco are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Monaco form and stats

Monaco have collected 7 points from their Ligue 1 home games so far after 2-1-2. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Stade Louis II..

Happy days for Monaco in their previous game, a Europa League match away at PSV that ended with a 2-1 victory. Manager N. Kovač felt very clever after Sofiane Diop scored the winning goal against PSV, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 75th minute. Caio Henrique (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.34/10. Henrique signed up for two assists and hit three key passes.

A Ligue 1 defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Olympique Lyonnais.

Monaco are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 5 games. Monaco have conceded 6 in these home matches.

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Montpellier form and stats

0-2-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Montpellier in their Ligue 1 matches away.

The supporters enjoyed Montpellier's previous game versus Lens (placed 2nd), a Ligue 1 1-0 win played at home. Teji Savanier got a match rating of 8.61 in that game, top player of the team. Savanier served one assist, hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 7 of 8 times and had 45 successful passes (of 54 total).

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Strasbourg.

Montpellier are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 4 games (in the league). Montpellier have conceded 8 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Monaco four wins, four draws and Montpellier two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Monaco missing players

Montpellier missing players

Monaco Montpellier
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 1 4 10
4 2 0 Won W 0 0 3
2 1 1 Drew D 0 2 4
4 2 0 Lost L 1 2 3
14 7 1 Scored S 1 5 17
13 6 1 Conceded C 2 8 16
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
90% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 90%
50% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 50%
30% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 40%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 30%
50% 40% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 70%
10% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 20%
40% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 10%
 
5.3 7.4 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 6 5.4
2.9 2.4 2 Corners against (avg) C A 3 5 5
2.1 1.6 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 7 3.2 2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
10.2 11.4 13 Shots (avg) S ( 6 9 13.4
3.4 3.4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.2 4.8
41% 41% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 38% 35%
Key stats in Ligue 1 this season:
  • All of Monaco's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Montpellier's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Monaco have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Monaco have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Monaco haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Montpellier have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Montpellier have yet to win a game away.
  • 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 Paris Saint Germain 10 9 0 1 24 10 5 5 0 0 14 4 5 4 0 1 10 6 14 27
2 Lens 10 5 3 2 16 11 5 2 2 1 7 5 5 3 1 1 9 6 5 18
3 Olympique Marseille 9 5 2 2 18 11 5 3 1 1 13 7 4 2 1 1 5 4 7 17
4 Nice 9 5 2 2 17 5 4 2 2 0 8 3 5 3 0 2 9 2 12 16
5 Angers SCO 10 4 4 2 15 11 5 3 1 1 9 6 5 1 3 1 6 5 4 16
6 Olympique Lyonnais 10 4 4 2 16 13 6 3 3 0 13 7 4 1 1 2 3 6 3 16
7 Rennes 10 4 3 3 15 9 5 3 1 1 10 3 5 1 2 2 5 6 6 15
8 Strasbourg 10 4 2 4 18 15 6 3 1 2 13 7 4 1 1 2 5 8 3 14
9 Nantes 10 4 2 4 14 11 5 3 0 2 7 4 5 1 2 2 7 7 3 14
10 Monaco 10 4 2 4 14 13 5 2 1 2 7 6 5 2 1 2 7 7 1 14
11 Lille 10 4 2 4 13 15 4 3 0 1 6 6 6 1 2 3 7 9 -2 14
12 Lorient 10 3 5 2 11 13 4 3 1 0 5 2 6 0 4 2 6 11 -2 14
13 Montpellier 10 3 4 3 17 16 6 3 2 1 12 8 4 0 2 2 5 8 1 13
14 Clermont 10 3 4 3 13 20 5 2 2 1 7 6 5 1 2 2 6 14 -7 13
15 Reims 10 2 5 3 11 12 4 1 2 1 6 6 6 1 3 2 5 6 -1 11
16 Troyes 10 2 3 5 9 14 5 1 2 2 5 6 5 1 1 3 4 8 -5 9
17 Bordeaux 10 1 5 4 12 21 5 0 3 2 5 8 5 1 2 2 7 13 -9 8
18 Metz 10 1 3 6 11 22 5 0 2 3 5 11 5 1 1 3 6 11 -11 6
19 Brest 10 0 5 5 11 19 5 0 3 2 6 9 5 0 2 3 5 10 -8 5
20 Saint-Étienne 10 0 4 6 9 23 5 0 3 2 4 8 5 0 1 4 5 15 -14 4

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Ligue 1 is the top league in the French football league system. Seasons run from August to May with 20 teams playing a total of 380 fixtures. The team topping the league table after the final game is the champion of France, receiving the trophy L’Hexagoal. Ligue 1 is one of the top five European leagues.