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Nice and Metz play at the Allianz Riviera in a match of the 20th round of Ligue 1. In the last match between these teams in this competition on 23-10-2016, Nice won out by (2-4). The history of recent direct clashes is favorable to the home team, which has 2 wins and 2 draws in the last 4 games. Although this is a game between 1º and 18º of the general classification, in fact it is a game between the 1º classified in games in house and 8º like visitor.
Nice
After 13 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss, the home team is in 1st place, having won 44 points. In the last match, they drew with Bordeaux away by (0-0), after in the previous game to have won at home, in a game against Dijon, by (2-1). This is a stronger team in their stadium, where they won 26 points, against only 18 in their games as a visitor. The team arrives at this meeting after a defeat away with Lorient by (2-1).
In this competition, you have not lost in your stadium for 10 matches. His attack has scored regularly, as he has managed to achieve in 8 of the last 10 games in this competition. In his home games there is a tendency towards goals, since 9 of his last 10 games by the competition finished with More of 1.5 goals. The team did not usually feel difficult to open the scoring chart: they managed to score the first goal in 16 of their last 19 matches for Ligue 1, 16 of them reached the interval in a lead in 10 and managed to maintain the advantage until the end of the 90 ‘in 13.
Nice are back at home for the French championship, trying to keep up the good game to extend their seven-game unbeaten run. In the last round, the team went to the home of Bordeaux and managed to get out of there with a scoreless draw. Before, the team had received Dijon at home and managed to leave the field with the win by 2×1. After nineteen rounds, the club accumulates thirteen wins, five draws and only one defeat, thus taking the lead of the competition. For this match, the coach should keep the team in 4-3-3 or 3-5-2, and there will be neither Belhanda nor Balotelli, who were sent off in the last match.
Metz
After 5 wins, 4 draws and 9 losses, the visiting team is in 18th place, having won 19 points. In the last match, they drew 1-1 with Guingamp at home (2-2), having lost 3-0 in a game against Caen in the last match. This is a team that normally achieves more positive results as a visitor than at home, having won 10 points and 9 at home with 12 goals scored and 21 goals conceded at home, against 6 goals scored and 15 conceded. In the last game he played, for Coupe de la Ligue, lost with Paris Saint Germain away by (2-0). In the last 10 away games, Metz have won 3, 1 draw and 6 defeats, having won 10 points out of 30. In the matches played out in the league, the most frequent result at the end of the first 45 ‘was 1-0, which occurred in 4 of his 8 matches. The team allowed their opponents goals in 9 of the last 10 games for this competition, so they have not been very strong defensively. In 18 games in this competition, he suffered the first goal 10 times and only got 1 turn on the scoreboard. There are 2 periods in the last 10 games played as a visitor for this competition: he scored 3 of his 6 goals between minutes (31’-45 ‘); Suffered 6 of his 15 goals in minutes (76’-90 ‘).
Metz enters the field for their nineteenth game for the French Championship, still trying to find the way to victory to ease the bad situation that lives in the competition. In the last round, the team at least returned to score when receiving the Guingamp at home and leave with the draw in 2×2, thus reaching their fifth game in a row without a win. Before, the team had gone to the house of the Caen and left there thrashed by 3×0. After eighteen rounds, with one game less, the club accumulate nine defeats, four draws and five wins, thus occupying eighteenth place in the table. For that match, the coach must keep the team at 4-5-1.
Prediction: Nice Win at 1st Half @ 2.00