Montpellier vs PSG

Saturday night marks another Ligue 1 dead rubber at Montpellier HSC’s Stade de la Mosson with already relegated Montpellier happy to welcome champions Paris Saint-Germain.

The hosts are bottom of the league following a heart-wrenching relegation in their 50th season, while PSG are on a high having reached the Champions League final; they won 1-0 in Lisbon; Wednesday.

A night filled with joy, PSG, themselves and their supporters, enjoyed celebrations after PSG have qualified for the Champions League final following the 2020 success that was not celebrated while it happened because of the pandemic.

Luis Enrique’s men won 3-1 on aggregate to secure their passage to Munich, where Inter Milan will await at the end of the month, the league title in the bag, little attention will be given to their final two games of the season.

Rather, and as if that was not quite as voyeuristic, with an incredible treble hanging in the balance, Enrique will be thinking about the Coupe de France final against Reims on May 24th and the showdown with Inter on May 31st.

PSG’s Ligue 1 form has suffered since the semi-finals of the Champions League were reached because they lost to Nice at home for the first time this season before having to consider the first leg against Arsenal.

After an unbeaten season was no longer to be, Enrique made 10 changes at Strasbourg last weekend and, as PSG lost back-to-back league games for the first time in over two years, his ‘B’ team was humbled 2-1 to the form in-form Rosenior’s Alsatians.

Even if Enrique saves the bulk of his starting XI for those two finals, they should still be streets ahead here to stop that run because the visitors have not lost in their previous 11 games against Montpellier.

In what has been one of the worst Ligue 1 campaigns in recent memory, relegation was confirmed two weeks before Montpellier's matchday 31 match.

The struggling Montpellier team has lost 24 of their 32 league games so far this season, and another loss tonight will surpass Red Star's record of 34 losses in a season, which was established in the 1940s.

Even though Zoumana Camara's team stopped an 11-game losing streak two weeks ago at home against Reims, they lost again last week when Brest defeated them by a single goal.

With the intention of leading the team in Ligue 2 the next season, Camara took Jean-Louis Gasset's place. This was made possible by a significant makeover of the playing staff, who had clearly fallen behind in the second half of the season.

Given that they have given up 41 goals in their last 10 meetings with PSG—the most any team has ever given up in a 10-game run against another club in Ligue 1 history—the hosts have very little chance of winning this match.