Our prediction for this Ligue 1 match:
Nice
Match Time & Date:
27/08/2023
20:45
Prediction: 2-1
Lyon
Nice and Lyon go head to head at Allianz Riviera in what is expected to be a close Ligue 1 encounter. Les Aiglons head into the match following back-to-back draws with Lille and Lorient and they are surely capable of matching the struggling French powerhouse. Both Claude Maurice and Antoine Mendy remain in the recovery room, but there are no fresh injury worries in the home team ahead of the visit of Lyon.
Les Gones, on the other hand, experienced all sorts of problems at the back in a back-to-back defeats to Strasbourg (1-2) and Montpellier (1-4) and given their poor results in preseason, we believe that there is a big value in betting on the home side. In their last encounter at the venue Nice defeated Lyon 3-1. To make things even more complicated for the visiting side, key attacker Alexandre Lacazette is banned for the match following his sending-off in the last league fixture.
Highlighted Player (Alexandre Lacazette):
Alexandre Lacazette is a hometown boy of Lyon, a powerful striker who went through the youth ranks of the French side to become one of the most important players for Les Gones. The 25-year-old forward was also a member of all France national team selections becoming a European champion at the age of 19 by scoring the winner in the final against Spain.
This goal gave him a reputation of a big game player, one he went on to uphold on various occasions at his club. Lacazette is a hard working forward an accomplished finisher of the ball able to score from different positions. The most prolific striker in his side and among the top ones in the Ligue 1, Alexandre Lacazette scored more than 20 league goals last two seasons on a trot.
Constantly linked with a move away from Lyon, Alexandre Lacazette refuses to speak about anything other than his football and is leaving all the talk to the football pitch.
Highlighted Team (Nice):
OGC Nice are a football club that participate in French Ligue 1. Les Aiglons welcome their opponents at Allianz Riviera and the club was founded on 9 July, 1904 by Marquis Massengy d’ Auzac.
OGC Nice won their first Ligue 1 trophy back in 1951 and eight years later they clinched their fourth and last domestic title. Speaking of the French Cup, les Aiglons won their third Coupe de France title in 1997. Allianz Riviera has been the home ground of the club since September, 2013 and it has to be noted that the construction of the venue cost €250 million. OGC Nice play their home games in red and black shirts and black shorts, while the colour of their away kits is white.
The Ligue 1 team booked their place in the Europa League group stages for the 2016/2017 season for the first time in the club’s history and they were drawn alongside Schalke 04, Salzburg and Krasnodar in Group I. However, they were beaten by Schalke in their Europa League opener in front of home fans.
Lazio 
Bologna 
Strasbourg 
Athletic Bilbao
Real Sociedad 
