Both sides may be devoid of any confidence given their recent Ligue 1 form and have a chance to bounce back in the cup on Friday.
With home advantage, and international call-ups hitting the visitors harder, we back Metz to scrape over the line and book their place in the final 32.
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Data Analysis
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Metz win with a probability of 40.35%. A win for Clermont had a probability of 32.45% and a draw had a probability of 27.2%.
The most likely scoreline for a Metz win was 1-0 with a probability of 11.27%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 2-1 (8.43%) and 2-0 (7.37%). The likeliest Clermont win was 0-1 (9.85%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (12.88%). The actual scoreline of 1-1 was predicted with a 12.9% likelihood.
