✅Monaco✅ Handicap -1.5✅ Back on Easter Saturday, AS Monaco revived their status as title contenders in a four-way battle for ultimate glory, thrashing Metz 4-0 to make it just one defeat (W12, D3) in 16 league matches. The result also represented a sixth straight first-half clean sheet in Ligue 1 (L1) action for ‘Les Monégasques’, and boosted their 2020/21 L1 win-rate after drawn first halves to 50%. Interestingly, Monaco have beaten a FT handicap in all of their last four L1 home wins against an eventual bottom-placed side - as opponents Dijon are odds-on to be. Three of those four victories came by an exact two-goal margin, while the two that produced a 3-1 scoreline both saw Monaco concede ‘Goal 3’ of the match between the 70th and 80th minutes of play to a Senegalese opposition player! Long-doomed bottom club Dijon can but take what is coming to them here. A 2-0 defeat at Marseille last weekend made it 11 straight L1 defeats, and marked the second time across the last five games in that run where they lost both individual halves to-nil by equal margins. Dijon’s despairing defence when travelling has been nothing short of a joke lately. The visitors’ backline has conceded an average of 2.5 goals per match across the preceding run of six losing road trips, though Dijon strangely won the first half in two of those games (HT: W2, L4).
✅Monaco✅ Handicap -1.5✅
Back on Easter Saturday, AS Monaco revived their status as title contenders in a four-way battle for ultimate glory, thrashing Metz 4-0 to make it just one defeat (W12, D3) in 16 league matches. The result also represented a sixth straight first-half clean sheet in Ligue 1 (L1) action for ‘Les Monégasques’, and boosted their 2020/21 L1 win-rate after drawn first halves to 50%.
Interestingly, Monaco have beaten a FT handicap in all of their last four L1 home wins against an eventual bottom-placed side - as opponents Dijon are odds-on to be. Three of those four victories came by an exact two-goal margin, while the two that produced a 3-1 scoreline both saw Monaco concede ‘Goal 3’ of the match between the 70th and 80th minutes of play to a Senegalese opposition player!
Long-doomed bottom club Dijon can but take what is coming to them here. A 2-0 defeat at Marseille last weekend made it 11 straight L1 defeats, and marked the second time across the last five games in that run where they lost both individual halves to-nil by equal margins.
Dijon’s despairing defence when travelling has been nothing short of a joke lately. The visitors’ backline has conceded an average of 2.5 goals per match across the preceding run of six losing road trips, though Dijon strangely won the first half in two of those games (HT: W2, L4).