Lille vs Metz Ligue 1 Match Preview or Key Statistics 🔖
🔖Lille have lost only two of their last 19 games against Metz in Ligue 1 (W11 D6), Iosing home and away in 2016/17 (3-2 away in August 2016 and 0-2 at home in May 2017).
🔖Lille have won only one of their last five home games against Metz in Ligue 1 (D3 L1), after winning five of their previous six (D1).
🔖They have also failed to score in three of their last four, as many as in their previous 22 Lille have won seven of their last nine games in Ligue 1 (D1 L1), as many as in their previous 18 (D4 L7).
🔖Metz have lost three of their last six games in Ligue 1 (W2 D1), as many as in their previous 14 (W4 D7).
🔖Lille have kept nine clean sheets at home in Ligue 1 since the beginning of last season, no other team has more (level with Paris).
🔖Metz have won two of their last four away games in Ligue 1 (D2), as many as in their previous 20 (D7 L11). They are unbeaten in their last five away games in the top-flight (W2 D3), their best such run since October 1997-February 1998 (6).
🔖Jonathan Bamba has been involved in a goal in each of his last three games in Ligue 1 with Lille (2 goals, 1 assist) and could equal his best run in the top-flight registering goal involvements in four consecutive games between May and August 2017 with Angers and St Etienne respectively (3 goals 2 assists).
🔖Only Fabio (7) has conceded more fouls than Mehmet Zeki Çelik (6 with Lille) amongst defenders in Ligue 1 this season.
🔖Habib Diallo has failed to score in his last five games in Ligue 1 with Metz, his worst run since Metz' return to the top-flight last season.
🔖Lille manager Christophe Galtier has faced Metz on more occasions without losing in Ligue 1 than against any other team (P6 W3 D3), alongside Ajaccio.
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