Troyes vs. AS Monaco 8/29/21 Ligue 1 Soccer Pick, Odds, and Prediction

Troyes is hosting AS Monaco at Stade de I’Aube in round 4 of the French Ligue 1. Troyes is still without a win in Ligue 1 this season, and they haven’t won any of their last 6 games overall. Monaco has gotten knocked out of the Champions League, and they will be playing in the Europa League instead this season.

Troyes has scored only 2 goals so far this season while conceding 5 goals. After starting the season with 2 losses, Troyes has gotten a positive result last weekend against Strasbourg on the road. Troyes has had 40% of ball possession, 6 shots on goal, 3 corner kicks, 2 big chances created, and 73% of the correct passes. Overall, this wasn’t a particularly good game, but at least we saw a couple of goals. The final score of this match was 1-1. Touzghar and El Hajjam have each scored 1 goal for Troyes this season. The injury list is quite long for Troyes this season, and there are a lot of players that will miss this game. Troyes has a tough task ahead of them, and that is staying in Ligue 1 for at least one more season, but I’m not sure they are good enough to do it.

Monaco is still struggling in Ligue 1, but most recently, Monaco was playing in the Champions League qualifications against Shakhtar Donetsk, and they got knocked out after the overtime in the second leg. As far as the Ligue 1 goes, Monaco has 1 draw and 2 losses, only 1 scored goal, and 4 conceded goals, and they are in 19^th place in the standings. In their game against Lens last weekend, Monaco was dominant with 71% of ball possession, 2 shots on goal, 13 corner kicks, 0 big chances created, and a solid 86% of the correct passes. After they conceded a goal in the 51^st minute, Monaco got lucky because Lens conceded a red card in the 60^th minute. Unfortunately for Monaco, they weren’t able to score a goal, and they even conceded a red card at the end of the game. In the 94^th minute, Monaco has conceded another goal, and they ended up losing this match 0-2. Martins is the only goalscorer for Monaco, while Golovin is suspended because of the red card. It’s been a tough few weeks for Monaco, but now that the pressure of the Champions League is off, and the international break is around the corner, Monaco will finally get back on the winning track.

Troyes hasn’t won any of their last 7 games, while they haven’t won any of their last 3 games against Monaco. Overall, Monaco is the better team here despite being in bad form, same as Troyes, but I have been favoring Monaco every week now, and I will do it once again here.