Montpellier vs Lyon prediction: FRANCE: Ligue 1 betting tips on match 2025-02-15 14:00.
[p]After briefly raising the hopes of their fans with back-to-back 2-1 victories over Monaco and Toulouse last month, bottom-of-the-table Montpellier have since reverted to type and will host Lyon this weekend looking to avoid a third successive 2-0 defeat. La Paillade will also be hoping to avoid a seventh defeat from eight H2Hs (W1), but having not kept a clean sheet against Lyon since August 2019, the chances appear slim.[/p]
[p]A leaky defence is a familiar issue for Montpellier, who have conceded 48 times in the league already this season, the second-highest number by any team after 21 games in Ligue 1 across the last 45 years! But if anything is going to save them from relegation, it is likely to be their home form as Jean-Louis Gasset’s side have picked up 12 of their paltry 15-point haul at the Stade de la Mosson this campaign.[/p]
[p]Lyon have won by a one-goal margin on each of their last three visits to Montpellier but arrive without a victory in any of their last five away games across all competitions (D3, L2). In the league alone, they have won only once on their travels since the start of November and picked up just one point from their last four away fixtures, despite scoring in each.[/p]
[p]They should still arrive in a buoyant mood after they ended a run of seven competitive games without victory (D4, L3) by thrashing Reims 4-0 at home last Sunday. Those three points see Paulo Fonseca’s team begin this gameweek in sixth place and the Portuguese manager, who only took over at the end of January, will be targeting a fifth personal H2H without defeat against Montpellier (W3, D1).[/p]
[p]Players to watch: With other scorers leaving during the recent transfer window, Téji Savanier is the only current Montpellier player to have netted at home in 2025. Corentin Tolisso has been prolific of late, scoring a second-half goal in each of Lyon’s last three games.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Montpellier have conceded a first-half goal in nine of their last ten home league games. [/p]
[p][i]Written by Tom Penn[/i][/p]