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Nice vs Lyon Prediction & Betting tips
OGC Nice will welcome PSG defender Olympique Lyon on Matchday 1, who inflicted their first defeat of the season on Ligue 1 on Sunday night. At the same time the match was a successful revenge for the rough 0: 5-clap in the first round. Compensation can make the table again on the Cote d’Azur, as the home game against the kicker from Nice was lost last August with 0: 1. A task that seems feasible, because the hosts have lost on the final day with 0: 4 in Lille and also some personnel problems at different levels.
For example, players are missing in midfield due to injuries such as Ihsan Sacko or a card suspension, as in the case of Pierre Lees Melou. In addition, the club since the winter break without the migrant Mario Balotelli get along in the storm, but his performances in this season but precipitated anyway underground. Overall, the hosts have a mélange of difficulties, which is why in the match between Nice and Lyon the tip on away win. The forecast provides for the use of 5 units.
Nice:
The season was for the troupe of coach Patrick Vieira from the beginning under no good star. Last summer, the four-time champion, most recently in 1959, had to cope with a significant bloodletting in the squad. For example, the attacker Alassane Plea, after all second best scorer of the last season, left the club in the direction of the foals of Borussia Mönchengladbach. Added to that were the problems with Mario Balotelli, who clearly did not feel like starting up in Nice from the start and barely hid this on the lawn with his little inspired performances until the winter break. Now he kicks for several weeks in league rivals Olympique Marseille, which is why the best scorer of the past season is also no longer on board.
In addition, entrances such as the Frenchman Myziane Maolida, who was hired by the upcoming opponent for the midfield, or the Brazilian Danilo, formerly Sporting Braga, so far have not been able to show their potential because of injury thrown them off track. Last but not least, the change on the bench is to name. Here, Patrick Vieira inherited the Swiss Lucien Favre, whose experience his successor does not possess, because it is his first job at a European club.
Due to the loss of quality in the offensive, it is not surprising that Le Gym scores in the Ligue 1 second less goals. Only the bottom last EA Guingamp stingy yet more with his goals. Only thanks to a still relatively stable defense is the situation with the Aiglons with ninth place still quite relaxed. However, Nizza scored two wins in his home alliance Riviera. Successes, but succeeded with Nimes Olympique and Girondins Bordeaux against clubs ranked in the table behind Nice. The balance against teams from the upper table area falls with defeats against PSG, Marseille and the strong climber Stade Reims already less handsome from the point of view of the kicker from the Mediterranean.
Lyon:
Olympique Lyon, for its part, is attacking for second place. The club reached on the last three matchdays one win. First, the Rhône-Alpes Derby was won at AS Saint-Etienne and then followed by a victory at Amiens SC. The most valuable threesome was sealed last Sunday when Paris Saint-Germain beat their own 2-1 win. A loss in the league for the captains was not previously on the program this season, which is why the joy of this in Lyon, of course, turned out to be particularly large. Lyon are now comfortable in third place thanks to the series of wins and six points ahead of Saint-Etienne, who are fourth. On the second placed Great Danes from Lille are still missing three points.
The Gones are now unbeaten in Ligue 1 for about two months and away for almost exactly four months. At that time, the club conceded the already mentioned painful 0: 5 defeat at PSG, which was now straightened again. Olympique has lost twice in foreign territory, scoring five wins and four draws instead. A yield that is only topped by PSG. One reason why the form curve has been up for weeks in the seven-time titleholder is the well-functioning offensive.
An example of this is the series of 13 most recent mandatory games in which the team of coach Bruno Génésio has always been able to score at least once. Moussa Dembele with five goals and Nabil Fekir with three goals in the last six games are especially energized. The former met, among others, on the last Thursday evening, when Lyon secured EA Gunigamp by a 2: 1 entry into the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France.
Nice vs Lyon head to head matches
31.08.18 L1 Lyon Nice 0 : 1
19.05.18 L1 Lyon Nice 3 : 2
26.11.17 L1 Nice Lyon 0 : 5
20.05.17 L1 Lyon Nice 3 : 3
14.10.16 L1 Nice Lyon 2 : 0