🔥 Match Context

• High-stakes showdown: Winner plays in Ligue 1 2025–26; loser drops to or stays in Ligue 2

• Aggregate Score: 1–1

• No away goals rule in effect — extra time and penalties if level after 90 mins

📈 Form Overview

🟥 Reims (Ligue 1 – 16th place)

• ❌ 4 losses in last 5 competitive games

• ⚽ Just 2 goals scored across that stretch

• Looked flat and disorganized recently

• Home struggles: Lost last 2 at home without scoring

• 📉 Confidence is low after 3–0 cup exit vs PSG

🟪 Metz (Ligue 2 – 3rd place)

• ✅ Unbeaten in 4 matches (W2, D2)

• 🔥 Looked sharper and more dangerous in the first leg

• ⚽ 8 goals scored in last 4 matches

• Momentum from back-to-back wins before 1st leg

• Last 5: W–W–D–D–L

🧠 Tactical Snapshot

Reims

• Playing reactive football — low energy, struggling to create

• May return to a more cautious 4-2-3-1

• Main threat: set pieces and brief counterattacks

Metz

• Confident pressing and fast transitions in 1st leg

• Can hurt Reims in wide areas and overload the midfield

• Likely setup: compact but attack-minded 4-3-3