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- Nantes vs Metz Predictions: Hosts to Maintain Great Early-Season Form
- All of Nantes’ early-season home clashes have been draws or decided by one-goal margins - Nantes to Win by One Goal @ — 12/5 Betfair
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Ahead of our Nantes vs Metz preview and soccer predictions, the away side have been in terrible form. They have taken just three points from their first available domestic 21, and the signs aren’t looking good.
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Nantes have kept things fairly tight at back, and have recovered well from opening up the campaign with two consecutive defeats against Lille and Olympique Marseille. Both of those teams, however, have plenty of quality going forward.
Our Nantes vs Metz predictions back the home side to continue to impress, which makes it tempting to use the value brought by heaping more misery onto Metz in the Ligue 1 football odds.
Metz have won just one of their last four away contests in the French top flight, and that record is set to get slightly worse. Only struggling Angers have been pegged back by the visitors, who otherwise have travelled recently without providing a threat.
Nantes vs Metz Prediction and Betting Advice
Metz have failed to score in three of their last four Ligue 1 away game, with Guingamp, Bordeaux and Caen managing to keep clean sheets against the visitors. Given their defensive record at home, Nantes will fancy themselves to do the same, making Ladbrokes’ odds on a win to nil look extremely good value.
Nantes have kept three clean sheets in their last five home matches and even managed to restrict Olympique Lyonnais to a 0-0 draw in August. That kind of defensive resolve should be key to edging another three points in the French top flight this weekend.
Metz have found the back of the net in just one of their last our away jaunts in the league, which should point towards the home side having a fair easily time of it in terms of keeping things watertight on their own end. Backing a victory to nil, therefore, makes a lot of sense.
During their opening three Ligue 1 home games, Nantes have conceded just once, with a 0-0 stalemate and a 1-0 win being their other two results aside from a one-goal defeat. The margin of victory has been very narrow. Our Nantes vs Metz bets reflect this, and the likelihood of this landing is backed up very effectively by the previously mentioned statistics.
Metz’s poor form in front of goal should help their cause. They have scored just once on the road since late May in Ligue 1, and both Guingamp and Caen beat them by one-goal margins on their travels. Nantes should be the next in a long line waiting to stick the boot in on the division’s bottom club.
Our Nantes vs Metz picks back Nantes to win comfortably, but by a narrow margin. The hosts’ defensive record at home, partnered with a distinct lack of big wins or defeats for either team over the last couple of months, should mean that it is a hard-fought contest that is ultimately a little low on quality, with Nantes’ form and confidence enough to carry them to a win.
