Week 11 brings us a match on Oct 16th, where Monaco hosts Clermont in a meeting of these two Ligue 1 teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 19 degrees, which is great football weather. In their last match, 5th placed Monaco, recorded a 2-0 shutout win against Montpellier. Breel Embolo struck first for Monaco in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time, then Myron Boadu added another in the 80th minute on a feed from Caio Henrique At the end of 90 a dissapointed Montpellier couldn’t manage to score, and Monaco took the shutout win. With 20 points in their last 10 matches Monaco should be reasonably happy with their performance, while in their last match, Clermont recorded a 2-1 win against Auxerre. Saîf-Eddine Khaoui scored the first goal for Clermont in the 55th minute, then Grejohn Kyei added another in the 58th minute. Clermont is looking for direction having 5 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season Monaco won the head to head battle with 2 wins.
Grejohn Kyei has been the most prolific scorer on Clermont in his last 5 matches with two goals. Monaco is glad to have Wissam Ben Yedder in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored six goals
Monaco will be without Kevin Volland, Gelson Martins, Ruben Aguilar and Guillermo Maripán, while Pascal Gastien’s Clermont squad will be without Jérémie Bela, Mehdi Zeffane and Johan Gastien.