Montpellier vs Nimes Ligue 1 Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Montpellier have only lost one of their seven Ligue 1 games against Nimes (W3 D3), in Match 1992 (1-2). Montpellier have won three of their last four Ligue 1 home games against Ni mes (D1 ), keeping a clean sheet in each of these matches.
Montpellier have picked up 10 points after five games in Ligue 1 2020/21, they have only recorded more points at this stage of the competition, in 2011/12 (12 -champions at the end of the season) and in 2009/10 (11 -5th).
Nimes have won only one of their last eight games in Ligue 1 (D2 L5), after winning five of their first seven in 2020 (L2).
Montpellier have won 13 of their last 17 Ligue 1 home games since the start of the last season (D2 L2), the highest tally in the top-flight (level with Paris).
MHSC have won their last five Ligue 1 home games, the best current run in the top-flight and their best run since November 2012-March 2013 (8).
Nimes have only won one of their last 16 Ligue 1 away games since the start of the last season (D5 L10), the fewest wins of any side over this period.
Montpellier have had 33 shots on target in Ligue 1 2020/21, more than any other team and their best tally after their first five games of a top-flight season since Opta started collecting full data of the competition (2006/07).
Nimes kept a clean sheet in their last away game in Ligue 1 (0-0 at Lyon) but haven't recorded successive shutouts since November 2018 (2). The duo of Gaetan Laborde and Andy Delort have combined to score/assist 11 goals to each other in Ligue 1 since the beginning of 2018/19 (7 from Laborde to Delort, 4 in the opposite way), only Neymar and Kylian Mbappe (14) have done better in that spell. Montpellier forward Gaetan Laborde has been involved in two of the last three Ligue 1 goals for his team against Nimes (one goal, one assist).
Nimes goalkeeper Baptiste Reynet has conceded 299 goals in his 177 Ligue 1 games, conceding 1.69 goals per game on average, the highest ratio for a goalkeeper with a minimum of 50 matches in the top-flight in the 21st century.
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