Ligue 1 · FRA · Round 18

Montpellier
1 - 3 Full time
Metz

Stade de la Mosson

Lineups

Montpellier5-3-2
BL40Lecomte
RA2Aguilar
NM23Mukiele
H4Hilton
PM5Mendes
JR24âš½Roussillon
ES13Skhiri
SS28↓63'Sessegnon
PB7Lasne
IM18↓73'Mbenza
SC19↓63'Camara
EK16Kawashima
JR28Rivierez
VS15Selimovic
MN21Niakhate
BA32Assou-Ekotto
FD3Diagne
RC24âš½Cohade
NR9↓78'Roux
FM19Mollet
MD17↓68'Dossevi
ER29⚽↓89'Riviere
Metz4-2-3-1

Montpellier substitutes

14 Giovanni Sio 5.7 ↑63'
9 Jonathan Ikone 6.2 ↑63'
6 Solomon Sambia 6.1 ↑73'
3 Daniel Congré
27 Facundo Piriz
1 Laurent Pionnier
31 Nicolas Cozza

Coach: Michel Der Zakarian · Unavailable: Killian Sanson (injury), Morgan Poaty (injury)

Metz substitutes

5 Geronimo Poblete 6.3 ↑68'
7 Ibrahima Niane 7.4 ↑78'
33 Nicolas Basin ⚽↑89'
23 Chris Philipps
14 Lemouya Goudiaby
30 Quentin Beunardeau

Coach: Frédéric Hantz · Unavailable: Ablie Jallow (injury), Cafu (injury), Ivan Balliu (injury), Julien Palmieri (injury), Matthieu Udol (injury), Milan Bisevac (injury), Opa Nguette (injury), Philipp Wollscheid (injury), Thomas Didillon (injury), Yann Jouffre (injury)

Match events

20'Jerome Roussillon assist: Stephane Sessegnon 1 - 0âš½
29'Renaud Cohade assist: Emmanuel Riviere 1 - 1âš½
Second half
63'↑ Jonathan Ikone ↓ Stephane Sessegnon⇄
63'↑ Giovanni Sio ↓ Souleymane Camara⇄
66'Jonathan Rivierez
68'↑ Geronimo Poblete ↓ Mathieu Dossevi⇄
73'↑ Solomon Sambia ↓ Isaac Mbenza⇄
76'Nolan Roux
78'↑ Ibrahima Niane ↓ Nolan Roux⇄
80'Paul Bastien Lasne
84'Emmanuel Riviere assist: Ibrahima Niane 1 - 2âš½
89'↑ Nicolas Basin ↓ Emmanuel Riviere⇄
90+4'Nicolas Basin assist: Moussa Niakhate 1 - 3âš½

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Match details

CompetitionLigue 1
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 16 December 2017, 19:00 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

2Montpellier wins0Draws3Metz wins

4 past meetings on record. Biggest Montpellier win: Metz 2–0 Montpellier (2017). Biggest Metz win: Montpellier 0–1 Metz (2016).

21 Jan 2017Metz 2 - 0 MontpellierLigue 1
24 Sep 2016Montpellier 0 - 1 MetzLigue 1
17 Jan 2015Metz 2 - 3 MontpellierLigue 1
23 Aug 2014Montpellier 2 - 0 MetzLigue 1