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Montpellier has big 14 points fewer than Lyon. However, Montpellier has managed to win one point in Lyon this season, while after that it defeated them at home by sound 4-1 in the League Cup.

Montpellier

All this indicates that coach der Zakarian players right to be optimistic this time, especially as they won last weekend Angers 2-1 in the league, while at the same time Lyon was defeated by Monaco away. Montpellier won two previous home matches, against Toulouse in the league and Lorient in the French Cup. After that Montpellier lost two times away, to PSG in the championship and Monaco in the semi-finals of League Cup.

Of course, their fans are very much sorry of missed chance to reach the great final of League Cup, given fact that Montpellier is safe in the upper part of table and shouldn’t worry about survival, while at the same time it can hardly reach any of positions that lead to Europe. Let’s add that even four players were let go in January, but they brought only defender Oyongo from Montreal. Midfielder Sanson is the only injured player and he is going to skip match with Lyon.

Probable lineups HSC Montpellier: Lecomte – Mukiele, Hilton, Mendes – Aguilar, Lasne, Skhiri, Sambia, Roussillon – Mbenza, Sio

Olympique Lyon

This round of 16 match of the French Cup comes for Lyon after two consecutive away defeats in the league, by Bordeaux 3-1 and Monaco 3-2. We need to say that Lyon dropped advantage of even two goals in Monaco, and received the third goal when it had one player less on the pitch. Of course, that angered coach Genesio very much and immediately after the Sunday’s match he announced new and numerous changes in the starting line-up for match with Montpellier.

Before those two defeats in a row Lyon had a great seven-game unbeaten streak of six wins and one draw, where we need to single out home triumph over leading PSG in the Ligue 1 and away one over Monaco in the French Cup. However, Lyon slid down at the fourth place of Ligue 1 and has two points fewer than third-positioned Monaco and three less than second-placed Marseille. Let’s add that coach Genesio doesn’t have any problems with absences at the moment.

Probable lineups Olympique Lyon: Lopes – Rafael, Marcelo, Diakhaby, Marcal – Ferri, Tousart, Aouar – Traore, Diaz, Cornet

Verdict:

Although Montpellier is regarded as one of most defensive teams in the Ligue 1 this time its opponent is team that always play to score a goal more and since it takes place in knockout phase of the French Cup it is quite realistic to expect that each team score at least by one goal.

Pick:  both teams to score 1.82 - 82/100 @1XBet