Nice vs FC Lorient Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Nice

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Nice will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 3-1 Conference League success vs Sheriff Tiraspol.

For Nice, goals were scored by Gaëtan Laborde (30'), Terem Moffi (53') and Bilal Brahimi (79'). Abdoul Tapsoba (54') scored for Sheriff Tiraspol.

Their latest results highlight the fact that much respect should be given to the Nice backline. Nice have given the opposition little, resulting in the tally of goals that have flown into the back of their net over the course of their last 6 clashes standing at 4.

Leading up to this clash, Nice:

• haven't been beaten in the league by FC Lorient in their previous 2 games.
• are unbeaten in their last 9 home league matches. It's been impressive.
• have not won at home in their last 2 matches in the league.

FC Lorient

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FC Lorient will go into this match after a 2-0 Ligue 1 win against ESTAC in their previous outing.

In that game, FC Lorient managed 52% possession and 16 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For FC Lorient, the goalscorers were Bamba Dieng (8') and Stéphane Diarra (92'). On the other side, Troyes had 9 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

Over the course of 5 of the past six games featuring FC Lorient, a comparatively low number of goals have been scored between them and opposing teams. The overall average number of goals per game within that spell is a paltry 1.5, with the average goals for Les Merlus being 1. Let’s see if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Looking at the pre-match facts, FC Lorient:

• have not beaten Nice in away games against them for the last 5 league games. Not the best of away records.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 18/02/2017 shows that Nice have won 3 of these games & FC Lorient 1, with the number of draws being 2.

An aggregate of 14 goals were produced between them in these games, with 8 of them from Les Aiglons and 6 being from Les Merlus. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

The last league game featuring these sides was Ligue 1 match day 13 on 30/10/2022 which ended up with the score at FC Lorient 1-2 Nice.

In that game, FC Lorient had 44% possession and 14 shots at goal with 8 on target. Their only player to score was Dango Ouattara (18').

Nice had 16 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Youcef Atal (61') and Gaëtan Laborde (69') scored.

The referee was Clément Turpin.

📰 Team News: Nice

The Nice manager Didier Digard doesn’t have any fitness worries at all ahead of this game thanks to a completely injury-free squad available to choose from.

In all likelihood, Les Aiglons should use the 4-3-3 formation for this one, utilising Kasper Schmeichel, Jordan Lotomba, Jean-Clair Todibo, Dante, Melvin Bard, Aaron Ramsey, Pablo Rosario, K. Thuram-Ulien, Badredine Bouanani, Gaetan Laborde and Billal Brahimi.

🗞️ Team News: FC Lorient

FC Lorient boss Régis Le Bris has multiple availability issues to deal with. Yvon Mvogo (Patella problems) and Julien Laporte (Knee Surgery) miss out here.

We reckon that Les Merlus seem likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 formation, giving starts to Vito Mannone, Igor Carioca, Bamo Meite, Montassar Talbi, Vincent Le Goff, Laurent Abergel, Jean-Victor Makengo, Romain Faivre, Enzo Le Fee, Yoann Cathline and Ahmadou Bamba Dieng.

✨ Prediction

When taking all factors into account, FC Lorient will likely create enough chances to put a goal past this Nice outfit, however that possibly won’t quite be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re going for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning margin for Nice by the conclusion of the game. Let’s just see how this one goes.

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Lucas Pereira, 02:39 15/03/2023