Red Star 1-1 Montpellier: result and report

Ligue 2 · Saturday 9 May 2026

Result

Red Star 1-1 Montpellier

Ligue 2 · Saturday 9 May 2026, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Red Star · Montpellier · Ligue 2 predictions

Red Star 1-1 Montpellier: match report

Red Star drew with Montpellier 1-1 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 9 May 2026. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Kévin Cabral opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Red Star's goal came from Kévin Cabral (43'). Montpellier scored through Nicolas Pays (88').

Discipline: Red Star received 1 yellow card; Montpellier received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Red Star were 5th on 54 points from 32 and Montpellier 8th on 50 points from 33. Red Star went on to finish that season 6th with 55 points, and Montpellier 8th with 51.

Red Star lined up in a 3-5-2 and Montpellier in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Kévin Cabral of Red Star (7.6), ahead of Nicolas Pays (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Red Star wins, 1 draw and 0 for Montpellier.

Going into the match Red Star's last five read W-W-L-W-D and Montpellier's L-W-W-D-D.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 37'Yellow card · Enzo TchatoMontpellier
  • 43'Goal · Kévin CabralRed Star · 1-0
  • 61'Yellow card · Josué EscartinRed Star
  • 88'Goal · Nicolas PaysMontpellier · 1-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Red Star 0, draws 1, Montpellier 0.

Team news

Unavailable

Red Star line-up (3-5-2)

Gaëtan Poussin, Dylan Durivaux, Josué Escartin, Matthieu Huard, Théo Magnin, Balthazar Pierret, Bradley Danger, Ryad Hachem, Damien Durand, Jovany Ikanga, Kévin Cabral

Montpellier line-up (4-2-3-1)

Simon Ngapandouetnbu, Enzo Tchato, Julien Laporte, Christopher Jullien, Yaël Mouanga, Théo Chennahi, Nabil Homssa, Nicolas Pays, Yanis Issoufou, Lucas Mincarelli, Enzo Molebe