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Nice vs Guingamp Prediction & Betting tips
Olympique Nice and En Avant Guingamp both suffered a painful defeat in the last round of play and are still eight points behind their goal with five rounds remaining. Can En Avant stunt in Nice to still compete for the eighteenth place or does Olympique Nice know the last chance to be placed for European football?
Olympique Nice:
Olympique Nice was the better team against low-flyer Caen in its own stadium for ninety minutes, but out of 21 goals, zero ended in the goal. Even a penalty kick was not spent on RĂ©mi Walter in the first half, as a result of which Caen scored from a corner in the final phase of the game. With the 1-0 defeat, Olympique Nice, which has a much worse goal difference than the higher ranked teams, is eight points away from fourth place and six points out of fifth place and therefore European football placement seems to have become an unachievable goal for the men of Patrick Vieira.
In terms of attack, it has been drama at les Aiglons all season long and in the meantime, even the last-rank player En Avant Guingamp has scored more goals than the Vieira team. Only three of the 23 goals fell out of corners and free kicks, making the team primarily dependent on individual actions and creativity. Club top scorer Allan Saint-Maximin scored only six goals this season, including three in January, but the last three months the talented Frenchman just couldn’t find it.
And Avant Guingamp:
And Avant Guingamp has been participating in the battle for the lower places all season long and last week the situation of the team of Jocelyn Gourvennec became even more penitent. With a 3-1 defeat in its own stadium against Olympique Marseille, the team is at the bottom after 33 games with only 24 points and to make matters worse, the direct competitors Caen and Dijon did win in the past round. With five rounds to go, En Avant is now eight points behind in the safe seventeenth place and the backlog in eighteenth place with four points is not easy to bridge.
Just like Olympique Nice, En Avant has great difficulty scoring this season. Per match, the men of Gourvennec conducted an average of only 2.8 shots at the opponent’s goal, the second lowest in the Ligue 1. In addition, club top scorer Marcus Thuram only scored once since February, leaving relegation and deflating of the selection in the coming summer now seem almost inevitable for En Avant.
Nice vs Guingamp head to head matches
19.12.18 COU Nice Guingamp 0 : 1 (0 : 0)
01.12.18 L1 Guingamp Nice 0 : 0
11.03.18 L1 Guingamp Nice 2 : 5
19.08.17 L1 Nice Guingamp 2 : 0
29.01.17 L1 Nice Guingamp 3 : 1