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Stade Rennais was allowed to visit Metz in Ligue 1 three times this season and all three games ended in a draw. Do Metz and Stade Rennais ensure four draws in a row?
Metz:
Metz won the Ligue 1 last weekend for the fourth time in a row. After a 2-2 draw against Montpellier, a 0-0 draw against Lille and a 1-1 draw against Stade Reims, last weekend was 1-1 with Nîmes Olympique. In the first half, les Grenats took the lead via Habibou Diallo, but in the second half, only Nîmes scored again, leaving both teams a point in the game. Metz is now above the relegation line on goal difference, but in the event of a loss against Stade Rennais, three teams can theoretically come alongside.
Habibou Diallo scored his ninth goal of the season against Nîmes Olympique and is now in joint second place with Wissam Ben Yedder in the top scorers rankings, only one goal behind Moussa Dembélé, the top scorer of the Ligue 1 for now. The Senegalese striker is now nine out of the thirteen hits of his team in the league this season, 69% converted. No other team is so dependent on one player for the goal production, so it is to be hoped for Vincent Hognon that his striker will be able to get through the busy schedule of the coming weeks without injury.
Stade Rennais:
In the fourteenth round, Stade Rennais took the decisive 2-1 against Dijon in the final phase, which meant a loss of points for les Rouges et Noirs, but last weekend two extra points were taken against AS Saint-Étienne in the final phase. Within half an hour both teams already managed to score once and in the last minute of the injury time Damien Da Silva set the final score at 2-1 with his first goal of the season. Due to the third victory in four games, Julien Stéphan’s team has now climbed to the shared tenth place, with another catch-up game against low-flyer Nîmes Olympique to go.
With three victories in the last four league games, Stade Rennais seems to be in good shape, but a different trend is still visible in away games. In the first two away games this season, the Stéphan team took six more points, but in the last five away games in the competition, only two points were taken. Including the matches in the Europa League, les Rouges et Noirs have already lost five away games in a row and have not won on stage eight times in a row.
Metz vs Rennes head to head matches
14.04.18 L1 Rennes Metz 1 : 2
09.12.17 L1 Metz Rennes 1 : 1
04.03.17 L1 Metz Rennes 1 : 1
30.10.16 L1 Rennes Metz 1 : 0
07.03.15 L1 Rennes Metz 1 : 0