If you’re watching Reims vs Metz, you gotta keep an eye on guys like Matthieu Udol for Metz and Cedric Kipre for Reims. Udol actually scored for Metz in the first leg and always causes problems for defenses. Kipre’s the guy who leveled things for Reims, so if anyone’s got a chance to step up when it matters, it’s those two.

About injuries, yeah, they could totally change things. Reims is missing their important midfielder Yaya Fofana, which stinks for them ’cause he’s usually pretty crucial holding things together in the middle. Metz, on the other hand, doesn’t have any big injury problems, so that might make them even more dangerous since they can play their strongest lineup.

Whenever I see a team missing a key player, especially in these do-or-die games, it just feels like the pressure doubles for everyone else. I’ve seen matches where one injury totally flipped how the whole team played. So for this match, it might tip things a bit toward Metz, but you never know—sometimes the underdog steps up when they have to.