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AS Monaco vs Nantes

Competition – France Ligue 1

Stadium – Stade Louis II

Date: 6th August 2021

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT

The French Ligue 1 curtain-raiser comes up this Friday with Monaco hosting Nantes in the Stade Louis.

The hosts are hoping to improve on a third-place finish from last season and will be heading into this game with the desire to kick off with a win to ensure that they set the early pace in the league proceedings.

Niko Kovac’s side ran out 2-0 winners in their last game against Sparta Prague in the Champions League and will be confident of building on that impressive win.

They have lost just one of their last seven games (including friendlies) and will fancy their chances of extending their winning run against Nantes to seven games.

The visitors finished 18th in last season’s Ligue 1 table and are only playing in the top division this season because of the away goal rule that saw them qualify via the relegation play-offs.

With Antoine Kombouaré their fourth manager in the last 49 league rounds, it is hard to envision anything but a loss for them in this game.

However, with this being the first game of the season, they will want to begin on a good note and set themselves up for a higher league finish.

However, a winless run against Monaco that stretches back to 2017 and a four-game winless run in Ligue 1 season openers does not inspire so much confidence for Nantes and the betting odds mirror this statistic.

Other fixtures taking place this week in France Ligue 1:

May 6, 2024
LOSC Lille Métropole 20:00 Lyon
May 10, 2024
OGC Nice 20:00 Le Havre
Brest 20:00 Stade de Reims
May 12, 2024
Paris Saint-Germain 20:00 Toulouse
Strasbourg 20:00 Metz
Stade Rennais FC 20:00 Lens
Marseille 20:00 Lorient
Clermont 20:00 Lyon
Nantes 20:00 LOSC Lille Métropole
Montpellier Hérault SC 20:00 Monaco
May 15, 2024
OGC Nice 20:00 Paris Saint-Germain
Stade de Reims 20:00 Marseille

France Ligue 1 Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Paris Saint-Germain 31 20 10 1 76 29 +47 70
2 Monaco 32 18 7 7 62 42 +20 61
3 Brest 32 16 9 7 49 33 +16 57
4 LOSC Lille Métropole 31 15 10 6 45 27 +18 55
5 OGC Nice 31 14 9 8 36 25 +11 51
6 Lens 32 14 7 11 42 34 +8 49
7 Stade Rennais FC 32 12 9 11 51 43 +8 45
8 Marseille 31 11 11 9 47 38 +9 44
9 Lyon 31 13 5 13 42 51 -9 44
10 Montpellier Hérault SC 32 10 11 11 41 44 -3 40
11 Toulouse 32 10 10 12 39 42 -3 40
12 Stade de Reims 31 11 7 13 38 45 -7 40
13 Strasbourg 32 9 9 14 35 47 -12 36
14 Nantes 32 9 6 17 29 49 -20 33
15 Le Havre 32 7 11 14 33 42 -9 32
16 Metz 32 8 5 19 34 54 -20 29
17 Lorient 32 6 8 18 37 63 -26 26
18 Clermont 32 5 10 17 26 54 -28 25

France Ligue 1 Results

May 4, 2024
Brest 0 - 0 Nantes
Metz 2 - 3 Stade Rennais FC
Monaco 4 - 1 Clermont
Le Havre 3 - 1 Strasbourg
May 3, 2024
Lens 2 - 0 Lorient
Toulouse 1 - 2 Montpellier Hérault SC
April 28, 2024
Marseille 2 - 1 Lens
Lyon 3 - 2 Monaco
Stade Rennais FC 4 - 5 Brest
Clermont 4 - 1 Stade de Reims
Lorient 1 - 2 Toulouse
Strasbourg 1 - 3 OGC Nice
Metz 1 - 2 LOSC Lille Métropole
April 27, 2024
Paris Saint-Germain 3 - 3 Le Havre
April 26, 2024
Montpellier Hérault SC 1 - 1 Nantes
April 24, 2024
Marseille 2 - 2 OGC Nice
Monaco 1 - 0 LOSC Lille Métropole
Lorient 1 - 4 Paris Saint-Germain

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