Strasbourg vs Monaco - prediction, team news, lineups

Monaco purpose to support their cleanable Ligue 1 grounds intact connected Saturday erstwhile they question to Stade de la Meinau successful Alsace to look Strasbourg.

After 3 matchdays, Le Racing are sixth successful the table, crushing Troyes 6-2 connected matchday three, putting them 3 points beneath the league-leaders Monaco, who came from down to borderline Paris Saint-Germain 2-1.

Match preview

It was astir arsenic unsmooth a commencement arsenic Hugo Filipe Carvalho Oliveira could person imagined to his tenure arsenic the Strasbourg boss, but his broadside person rapidly bounced back.

After a 4-0 decision connected matchday 1 astatine Marseille, they person reeled disconnected consecutive Ligue 1 triumphs, and connected Saturday volition beryllium seeking a 3rd successive location triumph successful the apical flight, dating backmost to past season.

The nine from Alsace could triumph their archetypal 2 location matches successful this contention connected Saturday for a 2nd successive campaign.

So acold this season, Strasbourg pb the league erstwhile it comes to goals per match, averaging 2.7 truthful far.

They person conceded archetypal successful each 3 of their home affairs frankincense acold but person travel backmost to triumph connected 2 of those occasions, doing truthful conscionable 4 times successful the full 2025-26 Ligue 1 campaign.

Strasbourg tin assertion a 3rd successive triumph against Les Monegasques this play astatine Stade de la Meinau, with the location squad netting a full of 8 times successful those 2 victories past season.

Filipe Luis has made an contiguous interaction successful the Principality, with Monaco winning each 5 of their competitory games played nether the Brazilian.

Last week they became the archetypal Ligue 1 broadside to bushed PSG successful 3 successive league fixtures since the Qatari Sports Investment (QSI) purchased the latter.

This is the archetypal clip Monaco person won their opening 3 Ligue 1 affairs since 2017-18, and connected Saturday they could triumph successful their archetypal 4 apical formation outings for the archetypal clip since that aforementioned campaign.

Monaco person won 3 of their past 4 home distant matches and could adjacent their longest winning tally successful the league arsenic the visitors from 2025-26 (three).

They presently boast the league's champion antiaircraft portion regarding goals conceded (one) and could cod a 4th cleanable expanse domestically connected Saturday, conscionable 1 less than they managed successful the 2026 information of past season.

Meanwhile, Les Monegasques could triumph their archetypal 3 Ligue 1 distant outings connected Saturday for the archetypal clip since the 2024-25 run and adjacent their longest winning tally arsenic the visitors successful this contention from past season.

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Team News

A musculus strain whitethorn support Martial Godo from featuring for Strasbourg connected Saturday, Maxi Oyedele is questionable owed to a knock, portion Joaquin Panichelli volition beryllium retired arsenic helium recovers from a cruciate ligament teardrop sustained past season.

Sam Amo-Ameyaw notched a brace past week astatine Troyes, with Jacobo Ortega, Diogo Sousa, Giovanni Reyna and Conrad Harder besides scoring connected that occasion.

In the Principality, Monaco volition beryllium without Takumi Minamino and Mohammed Salisu who are recovering from cruciate ligament tears, Ansu Fati is dealing with a calf strain, Folarin Balogun is questionable with a sound and Edan Diop volition beryllium doubtful due to the fact that of a thigh injury.

Flavio Nazinho and Stanis Idumbo some scored for them past Friday, portion Lukas Hradecky was heroic betwixt the sticks, stopping 9 PSG shots.

Strasbourg imaginable starting lineup:

Jorgensen; Antwi, Mitchell, Doukoure, Oso; P. Diop, Sousa; Amo-Ameyaw, Nanasi, Reyna; Ortega

Monaco imaginable starting lineup:

Hradecky; Vanderson, Sane, Dier, Nazinho; Camara, Zakaria; Coulibaly, Golovin, Idumbo; Brunner

We say: Strasbourg 2-3 Monaco

Both sides are littered with attacking talent, and we thin to spot plentifulness of goals erstwhile they quadrate disconnected successful Ligue 1.

At the extremity of the day, though, we judge Monaco’s momentum and their continuity volition alteration them to prevail successful what could beryllium an entertaining affair.

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