Added on November 16, 2017 Category Football Tips

Monaco resumed this Friday, November 17, their pursuit of Paris Saint-Germain, leader of the French Championship 2017/2018. The current champion of the competition will face rookie Amiens in a match that is part of the schedule of the thirteenth round of Ligue 1. With the start scheduled for 17:45 (GMT), the match takes place at the La Licorne stadium in Amiens.

Amiens’ recent performance
Staying in the elite division of French football is the great goal of the young Amiens. The team is at the limit of this goal. With 11 points (three wins, two draws and six defeats) accumulated, it occupies the seventeenth position, the first one outside the relegation zone. The advantage in comparison with Strasbourg, sixteenth, however, is minimal, by only one point.
In their domains, performance is patchy. It was two wins and two defeats, which puts Amiens in the sixteenth best campaign in the matter. There were four goals scored and four goals conceded. Overall, his attack is the second worst of Ligue 1. He rocked the network of rivals seven times in 11 games. Only the Metz flashlight, with five goals, performs worse.
Defends, however, an undefeated series of four matches. It was two wins and two draws. Three of those games were for the French Championship and one for the League Cup, where he reached his passage to the next stage by beating Troyes away from home 2-1.
To try to keep the team above the waterline, coach Christophe Pelissier has virtually all of his squad available for this Friday’s match. In the medical department are only the Charly Charrier socks (two matches in the French Championship 2017/2018, no goal) and Guessouma Fofana (two games, no goal). None of them can be considered absolute holder.

The current form of Monaco

The Monegasque received a ‘gift’ from the Colombian Federation. Striker Falcão Garcia, who has suffered physical problems due to a hip injury, was left out of the call for the two friendlies that his team made in the period of paralysis of the main national leagues in Europe to play matches for the repechage for the World Cup of the World of Russia of 2018.
In that way, the player has gained time to improve his physical conditioning and has his expected return for the match on Friday. He has been out of the last three matches and has been a key player in the club’s campaign in the French Championship. He participated in nine games and scored 13 goals.
The goals were instrumental in keeping Monaco ahead of the title. The team accumulated 28 points (nine wins, one draw and two losses). It’s four points behind Paris Saint-Germain, the leader. A relatively small difference in taking into account the brutal investment gap between PSG and Monaco.
The anticipation of the Monegasque duel for Friday is due to the club’s participation in the Champions League. The team earned one more day to prepare for the crucial clash with Leipzig in Monaco, scheduled for November 21. After playing in the semifinals last season, the team is threatened to be eliminated in the first round of the competition this year. With two points (two draws and two defeats), he holds the Group G light that has Besiktas (ten points) at the top and Porto (six) and Leipzig (four) still in contention for the second wave.
The Portuguese coach Leonardo Jardim also awaits the recovery of two other starters. The midfielder Thomas Lemar (ten matches, one goal) and defender Djibril Sidibe (seven matches, one goal) are in the infirmary. The former suffered a shoulder injury in a 1-1 draw with Turkey’s Besiktas and was out of the win at home to Guingamp (6-0) in the twelfth round of the French Championship. The second is out for four games. They must undergo a new evaluation that will determine if they have playing conditions.

History of the bouts between Amiens and Monaco
The teams had their paths crossed only twice by Ligue 2, the Second Division of the French Championship, in the 2011/2012 season. There was a 1-1 draw in the Principality and a Monegasque win, as a visitor, by 2 to 1.

The good defense of Amiens will have to handle the powerful attack of Monaco. The possibility of the returns of Falcão Garcia and Lemar makes the hunch in the visiting club is the best option for the duel with a price of 1.50 in Bet365. Draw yields 4.00 and success of the owners of the house causes the invested amount to be multiplied by 7.00.