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Nantes vs Montpellier Prediction & Betting tips
In a make-up game of the eighteenth round, Nantes takes on the number four of the Ligue 1, Montpellier, on Tuesday-evening. Can the team of Vahid Halilhodzic follow up on the big cup victory of Friday night?
Nantes:
Les Canaris ended the year 2018 in minor with narrow defeats in the Coupe de la Ligue against Stade Rennais and in the league against Paris Saint-Germain. Last Friday, in the home of Stade de la Beaujoire, the year 2019 was successfully launched with a 4-1 win in the 1 / 32th-finals of the Coupe de France against second division Chateauroux. In a one-sided match, debutant Imran Louza was the celebrated man at Les Canaris by locking the match in the second half by making it 3-1.
In terms of points Nantes performs pretty reasonably in-house this season. In eight home games was only lost against Olympique Nice and AS Monaco and since October the team is undefeated in the Stade de la Beaujoire. Only against Angers were points lost with a 1-1 tie, while in the won games against Olympique Marseille, Toulouse and En Avant Guingamp no less than twelve goals were scored and only 2 cashed. In the eight home games this season, only against Stade Reims was not scored, so the defense of Montpellier will be warned.
Montpellier:
In the 1 / 32nd-finals of the Coupe de France, Les Heraults suffered a very unexpected loss last Saturday against Entente SSG, a relegation candidate from the Championnat National, the third level of France. In the injury time of the second half, Benjamin Lecomte was beaten, so that this season alone Montpellier could be admired in the Ligue 1. In the Ligue 1, Michel Der Zakarian’s team is doing well, because only Paris Saint-Germain gets more points on average than the current number four of the Ligue 1 (average 2.76 points per match vs. 1.76).
Despite the defeat against Entente SSG, the cup match also brought good news for Der Zakarian as South African Keagan Dolly, who broke his leg in September against RC Strasbourg. The South African midfielder was assured of a place in the final phase of last season, but this season seemed to have ended up in the ranking behind Ambroise Oyonge and Paul Lasne. Remarkable statistics about Dolly is that he made his only goal for Montpellier in 48 games last season in the away match against Nantes.
Nantes vs Montpellier head to head matches
30.10.18 COU Montpellier Nantes 0 : 3
06.05.18 L1 Nantes Montpellier 0 : 2
09.09.17 L1 Montpellier Nantes 0 : 1
11.03.17 L1 Montpellier Nantes 2 : 3
21.12.16 L1 Nantes Montpellier 1 : 0