Nantes hosts Metz in round 2 of French Ligue 2. The match will be played on Sunday, August 15th at Stade de la Beaujoire (Nantes)
Nantes barely escaped relegation in the previous season. The mess in the management of the club almost led to failure and relegation to Ligue 2. The constant change of mentors leads to strange appointments, like Raymond Domenech: he has no victories in 7 games, but the media joke that the coach chooses the squad according to the horoscope (Spartak's brother?), and then Domenech is criticized for the failure with the Tricolors at the 2010 World Cup. Nantes looks terrible in the positional attacks, but they managed to snatch a 1-1 away draw against Monaco due to counterattacks. However, it does not negate the fact that the Canaries have an abundance of problems, and they were clearly visible in the offseason.
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Metz is built on the principle of a super-defensive game. It is a startling truth, but last season Ibrahima Niane scored six goals in the first ten matches of Ligue 1, picked up a serious knee injury, and missed the remaining matches until the end of the season, and that did not prevent him from becoming the team's top scorer. Metz became 10th at the end of the season, which is a quite high place for this club. The main strength of the team lies in physical fitness and athleticism. The powerful Africans that the team is staffed with physically destroy their opponents. Moreover, they are well prepared tactically. In the first round of the new season, the team somewhat deceived expectations from their style and tied 3-3 against Lille, but this does not change the philosophy of the club.
Last season the clubs tied 1-1 in Nantes, and Metz won 2-0 at home. Antonetti's charges easily stopped the Canaries in a positional attack due to the athleticism and tactical flexibility of their African footballers like Pape Sarr, and even now nothing has changed. Metz is a more organized team, which is capable of stopping the opponent's toothless attack, so Nantes is unlikely to score more than one goal.
Prediction for the match: Nantes to score Under 1.5 goals
