Montpellier vs Nice

12 September 2020 · Ligue 1 · 2020/21 · Referee Antony Gautier

Full time 3 – 1

Half-time: 1–0

Gaetan Laborde 18’
Daniel Congré 50’, 64’

Dante 69’

Match summary

Montpellier beat Nice 3-1. Montpellier led 1-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Gaetan Laborde put Montpellier ahead in the 18th minute, set up by Andy Delort. In the second half, Daniel Congré made it 2-0 with a header in the 50th minute, set up by Téji Savanier, Congré made it 3-0 from a corner in the 64th minute, set up by Andy Delort, and Dante pulled one back to make it 3-1 with a header in the 69th minute, set up by Amine Gouiri.

The chances backed that up: Montpellier created 1.70 expected goals (xG) from 20 shots to Nice's 0.38 from 9.

Match stats

20 Shots 9

13 Shots on Target 1

8 Corners 9

0 Yellow Cards 2

0 Red Cards 0

1.70 xG 0.38

1.70 Non-penalty xG 0.38

8 Deep Completions 0

Key events

Montpellier Nice

Kick-off

Gaetan Laborde
Assist: Andy Delort1-0

18’

Half-time1-0

Daniel Congré
Assist: Téji Savanier2-0

50’

Daniel Congré
Assist: Andy Delort3-0

64’

69’

Dante
Assist: Amine Gouiri

3-1

Full-time3-1

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Nice

Kasper Dolberg
Myziane Maolida

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Montpellier 1.70 xGNice 0.38 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Nice attacking Montpellier attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Jonas Omlin	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Hilton	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Daniel Congré	DEF	90	2		2	0.52	0.00	0
Pedro Mendes	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.09	1
Arnaud Souquet	MID	85			0	0.00	0.09	2
Damien Le Tallec	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Jordan Ferri	MID	73			1	0.03	0.05	2
Mihailo Ristic	MID	84			2	0.02	0.30	1
Téji Savanier	MID	68		1	4	0.13	0.16	5
Gaetan Laborde	FWD	90	1		7	0.74	0.00	0
Andy Delort	FWD	85		2	3	0.17	0.65	4
Junior Sambia	Sub	22			0	0.00	0.18	2
Joris Chotard	Sub	17			0	0.00	0.00	0
Ambroise Oyongo	Sub	6			0	0.00	0.00	0
Keagan Dolly	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.00	0
Stephy Mavididi	Sub	5			1	0.08	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Walter Benítez	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Youcef Atal	DEF	89			0	0.00	0.00	0
Dante	DEF	90	1		2	0.09	0.00	0
Andy Pelmard	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Hassane Kamara	DEF	90			1	0.01	0.10	1
Morgan Schneiderlin	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Pierre Lees-Melou	MID	90			1	0.03	0.04	1
Kephren Thuram	MID	46			0	0.00	0.00	0
Rony Lopes	FWD	80			0	0.00	0.12	3
Kasper Dolberg	FWD	90			2	0.15	0.01	1
Myziane Maolida	FWD	63			0	0.00	0.00	0
Alexis Claude Maurice	Sub	44			2	0.05	0.00	0
Amine Gouiri	Sub	27		1	1	0.04	0.06	1
Dan Ndoye	Sub	10			0	0.00	0.00	0
Eddy Sylvestre	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Montpellier win 46% Avg odds 2.06

Draw 29% Avg odds 3.33

Nice win 25% Avg odds 3.74

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Montpellier L L W L L

Nice D D W W W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Montpellier 2-1 Nice, 14 Sep 19 Next meeting: Nice 3-1 Montpellier, 25 Apr 21 All Montpellier vs Nice meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.

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