Montpellier confront Rennes, who have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Ligue 1, for acclaim and sporting success.
- Montpellier have yet to win a game at home.
- Rennes have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Ligue 1
Rennes have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 900 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
Rennes could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Europa League game only three sleeps ago.
Montpellier form and stats
0 victories, 1 draw and 1 defeat. That’s what Montpellier have to build on here at Stade de la Mosson in the Ligue 1.
An away draw last time out for Montpellier, facing Strasbourg in a game that ended 2-2. A disappointing finish for Montpellier in their match versus Strasbourg as their 2-0 lead was destroyed and replaced with a 2-2 full time score. Montpellier's goalie Lecomte played a big part in securing a draw after 90 minutes against Strasbourg with a stunning six saves. Midfield player Savanier got a match rating of 8.44 in that game, the max score being 10. Savanier served one assist, hit six key passes and had 51 successful passes (of 61 total).
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Lille (0-1).It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Montpellier at home in the league. 3 on target and 5 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Rennes form and stats
Rennes are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Ligue 1, having played 2 games and collected 2 points (0 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses).
The club members enjoyed Rennes's previous fixture versus Maccabi Haifa, a Europa League win (3-0) played at home. Truffert was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.65. The defender Truffert scored one goal, hit two key passes and won 3 of 3 duels.
Preceding that match was the 2-2 draw at home vs Lille.It's early days yet, but Rennes has scored 1 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Montpellier two wins, two draws and Rennes six victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Al Tamari 3 goals |  A. Adams 3 goals |   I. Salah 3 goals |
Montpellier missing players
Rennes missing players
| Montpellier | Rennes | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | Conceded | C | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 50% | 80% |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 80% |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 60% |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 60% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 80% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 20% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 20% |
| 4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2.5 | 4 |
| 3.6 | 2.5 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 11 | 9 | 5.2 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1 | 0.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 17 | 17 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 8 | 14.8 |
| 5.4 | 4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4 | 6.8 |
| 33% | 38% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 12% | 29% |
| 12 | 12 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 14 | 10.8 |
| 5.2 | 5 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3 | 3.6 |
- All of Montpellier's home-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
- Montpellier have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Montpellier have yet to win a game at home.
- Montpellier haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Rennes have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Rennes have not yet lost a game.
- Rennes have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Ligue 1
- Rennes have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Rennes have yet to win a game away.
| Montpellier | Last season | Rennes | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 19 | Played | P | 19 | 38 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 21 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 5 | ||
| 18 | 9 | Lost | L | 8 | 12 | ||
| 65 | 29 | Scored | S | 26 | 69 | ||
| 62 | 29 | Conceded | C | 25 | 39 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 95% | 97% | ||
| 89% | 95% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 84% | 82% | ||
| 63% | 68% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 63% | ||
| 32% | 26% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 26% | 29% | ||
| 21% | 16% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 5% | 11% | ||
| 58% | 68% | BTTS | BTTS | 74% | 55% | ||
| 29% | 21% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 34% | ||
| 13% | 11% | Failed to Score | F T | 11% | 13% | ||
| 5.1 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.6 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.1 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.6 | ||
| 10 | 9 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 6 | ||
| 11.9 | 12.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.5 | 14.2 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 5.2 | ||
| 37% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 35% | ||
| 14 | 15.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.1 | 10.3 | ||
| 5.5 | 6.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.4 | ||
| 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 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 11 |
| 2 | Brest | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 3 | Nice | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | Olympique Marseille | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Paris Saint Germain | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 6 | Lille | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| 7 | Metz | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 8 | Rennes | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 9 | Reims | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | Strasbourg | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 11 | Le Havre | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 12 | Lorient | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 13 | Toulouse | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 14 | Montpellier | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 15 | Nantes | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 5 |
| 16 | Olympique Lyonnais | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -7 | 2 |
| 17 | Clermont | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -6 | 1 |
| 18 | Lens | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -7 | 1 |
