Monaco vs Nantes Ligue 1 Match Preview or Key Statistics 📚
📚Nantes have lost 45% of their games against Monaco in Ligue 1 (43/95), their highest losing rate against an opponent in top-flight history.
📚Since their return to Ligue 1 in 2013/14, Monaco have lost only one of their 13 games against Nantes in the top-1light (W11 D1), in November 2017 (0-1).
📚Monaco have kept nine clean sheets in these 13 games. Monaco have won each of their six home Ligue 1 games against Nantes since returning to the top-flight in 2013/14, their best 100% home record against an opponent in that time.
📚Monaco have kept a clean sheet in four of their last five home games against the Canaris in the top-flight.
📚Monaco have lost only one of their last eight games in Ligue 1 (W4 D3), after losing each of their previous three.
📚Nantes could start a Ligue 1 season unbeaten in their first three games for just the 2nd time in the 21st century, after 2015/16. Monaco have played out two draws in a row at home in Ligue 1 (both against Reims), but have not done so in three in a row in the top-flight since April 2015 (3).
Against Metz (1-0), Monaco won a Ligue 1 game while attempting only three shots for the 1st time in the last 10 seasons. Their last shot was an off-target effort from Wissam Ben Yedder in the 45th minute.
📚Only three players have made at least 200 touches in Ligue 1 this season: Monaco's defenders Benoit Badiashile (222), Ruben Aguilar (200) and Axel Disasi (200).
📚Monaco's first three goals in Ligue 1 this season have been scored by central defenders (2 from Badiashile, 1 from Disasi).
📚This is the first time this has happened since Opta started collecting full data for the competition (2006/07).
📚Christian Gourcuff has picked up only 0.74 points per game against Monaco in Ligue 1 (19 games- W3 D5 L11). He has averaged fewer points per game only against Angers in the top-flight (0.5 point per game D2 L2).
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