Nantes 1-0 Metz: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 30 September 2017
Result
Nantes 1-0 Metz
Ligue 1 · Saturday 30 September 2017, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Nantes 1-0 Metz: match report
Nantes defeated Metz 1-0 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 30 September 2017. It was 1-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Emiliano Sala of Nantes in the 3rd minute.
Discipline: Nantes received 2 yellow cards; Metz received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Nantes were 6th on 13 points from 7 and Metz 20th on 3 points from 7. Nantes went on to finish that season 9th with 52 points, and Metz 20th with 26.
Nantes lined up in a 4-4-2 and Metz in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Valentin Rongier of Nantes (8.0), ahead of Abdoulaye Touré (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nantes win, 4 draws and 1 for Metz.
Going into the match Nantes's last five read W-W-W-D-W and Metz's L-W-L-L-L.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Emiliano Sala
- 46'Yellow card · Benoît Assou-Ekotto
- 52'Second yellow · Benoît Assou-Ekotto
- 63'Yellow card · Renaud Cohade
- 90'Yellow card · Lucas Lima
- 90+3'Yellow card · Andrei Girotto
- 90+5'Missed penalty · N. Roux
- 90+6'Yellow card · Iván Balliu
Head-to-head
Team news
Nantes line-up (4-4-2)
Ciprian Tătărușanu, Diego Carlos, Koffi Djidji, Lucas Lima, Léo Dubois, Adrien Thomasson, Yassine El Ghanassy, Abdoulaye Touré, Valentin Rongier, Emiliano Sala, Préjuce Nakoulma
Metz line-up (4-2-3-1)
Eiji Kawashima, Milan Biševac, Moussa Niakhaté, Iván Balliu, Benoît Assou-Ekotto, Gerónimo Poblete, Opa Nguette, Matthieu Dossevi, Chris Philipps, Renaud Cohade, Nolan Roux