Match Report
29 points separated the sides: LOSC Lille 3rd on 61, Nice 16th on 32. On recent form LOSC Lille sat only 7th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 3rd overall.
LOSC Lille entered with three wins in a row. Recent form was uneven: 12/15 points for LOSC Lille, 4/15 for Nice.
The head-to-head ledger counts 33 games: 7 LOSC Lille wins, 11 for Nice, 15 draws, at 2.42 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 27% of the meetings went to the host. These meetings skew tight — only 33% saw more than two goals.
The venue was Stade Pierre-Mauroy, with room for 50,186 spectators. The referee was B. Dechepy, with 100 matches in our database and 1.6 yellows per game on average. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.
Key stats
Possession: LOSC Lille 62% · Nice 38% · Total shots: 9-5 · On target: 2-1 · Corners: 5-3