Montpellier 2-1 Toulouse: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 20 January 2018
Result
Montpellier 2-1 Toulouse
Ligue 1 · Saturday 20 January 2018, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Montpellier 2-1 Toulouse: match report
Montpellier won against Toulouse 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 20 January 2018. The half-time score was 1-1.
Giannelli Imbula opened the scoring in the 30th minute. Montpellier's goals came from Junior Sambia (43') and Giovanni Sio (90+5'). Toulouse scored through Giannelli Imbula (30').
Discipline: Montpellier received 1 yellow card; Toulouse received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Montpellier were 8th on 28 points from 21 and Toulouse 19th on 20 points from 21. Montpellier went on to finish that season 10th with 51 points, and Toulouse 18th with 37.
Montpellier lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Toulouse in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Junior Sambia of Montpellier (8.4), ahead of Giovanni-Guy Yann Sio (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Montpellier wins, 2 draws and 5 for Toulouse.
Going into the match Montpellier's last five read D-D-W-L-D and Toulouse's D-L-L-L-W.
Key events
- 17'Yellow card · Christopher Jullien
- 30'Goal · Giannelli Imbula
- 43'Goal · Junior Sambia
- 45'Yellow card · Issiaga Sylla
- 53'Yellow card · Paul Lasne
- 72'Yellow card · Andy Delort
- 80'Yellow card · Alban Lafont
- 90+5'Goal · Giovanni Sio
Head-to-head
Team news
Montpellier line-up (3-4-2-1)
Benjamin Lecomte, Daniel Congré, Vitorino Hilton, Pedro Mendes, Ruben Aguilar, Paul Lasne, Ellyes Skhiri, Jérôme Roussillon, Junior Sambia, Jonathan Ikoné, Giovanni-Guy Yann Sio
Toulouse line-up (4-3-3)
Alban Lafont, Issa Diop, Christopher Jullien, Issiaga Sylla, Steeve Yago, Ibrahim Sangaré, Giannelli Imbula, Alexis Blin, Max Gradel, Yaya Sanogo, Somália