Montpellier HSC vs Lyon Preview 22/10/2022

Montpellier HSC vs Lyon – 22/10/2022

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It’s tenth in opposition to eleventh in what’s arguably the most important sport of the season this weekend for Lyon and Montpellier as each look to get again within the win column after a dismal few weeks have seen either side rocket down the league desk.

Whereas Lyon began the season so nicely, for Montpellier, in actuality, they’ve by no means actually been thought of for a battle contained in the Champions League locations, however they’ve nonetheless managed to attain 21 objectives to this point within the league – no aspect exterior of the European spots in Ligue 1 have scored extra.

Nevertheless, the membership have additionally nonetheless let in an alarming 22 objectives from 11 video games, that means they’re solely narrowly forward of Auxerre within the race to see who has conceded the fewest objectives from these exterior of the drop zone.

In addition to this, Montpellier haven’t been in a position to win a sport for a lot of weeks and have dropped out of the highest half of the desk in consequence and can now have a bit of labor to do to get again into the highest half.

In reality, they haven’t not received a sport since securing all three factors in a really slim win over Strasbourg simply earlier than the worldwide break.

What’s extra, a loss to strugglers Toulouse would come quickly after the worldwide break, with them additionally dropping to Monaco and Lens up to now two video games in Ligue one to throw them on a five-game winless run.

This does now imply simply Montpellier have put collectively two simply wins for the reason that finish of August for and sit as one of many worst groups within the league proper now when it comes to type.

As for Lyon, their early battle to get themselves right into a title race has now all of a sudden disappeared with the membership  now falling to tenth within the desk after a promising begin at first of the marketing campaign.

In reality, they’ve now didn’t win any of their previous six video games in Ligue 1 and are actually more likely to battle for a spot in Europe as an alternative.

Lyon misplaced to Lorient, Monaco, Paris Saint-Germain and Lens in a row all through September and early October, as they finally gathered only one level in a 1-1 draw with Toulouse.

An extra loss to Rennes final weekend moved them onto a winless run of six video games, with a horrible document of 12 objectives conceded up to now six outings, netting simply 5.

Forebet predicts a win for Montpellier and for the sport to see over 2.5 objectives.