NîMES. Nîmes and Valenciennes played a scintillating incredible match before drawing 3-3. Nîmes was not able to win even if it was superior in terms of ball possession (56%)

The match was played at the Stade des Costières stadium in Nîmes on Saturday and it started at 7:00 pm local time. The referee was Remi Landry with the support of Yannick Boutry and Julien Pacelli. The 4th official was Simon Amzallag. The weather was clear. The temperature was pleasant at 18.4 degrees Celsius or 65.1 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 68%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Nîmes was in firm control of the ball 56% while Valenciennes was struggling with a 44% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Nîmes was putting more pressure with 65 dangerous attacks and 15 shots of which 6 were on target. Nonetheless, that was not enough Nîmes to win the match​.

Nîmes shot 15 times, 6 on target, 8 off target. On the opposite side, Valenciennes shot 8 times, 4 on target, 3 off target.

Cards

Nîmes received 2 yellow cards (Malik Tchokounté and Steve Ambri). Talking about the opposition, Valenciennes received 2 yellow cards (Ilyes Hamache and Jonathan Buatu).

Standings

After this match, Nîmes will have 33 points to hold in the 19th place. On the other side, Valenciennes will have 38 points like Annecy to sit in the 15th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Ligue 2, Nîmes will play away against Caen on the 13th of May with a 5-3 head to head statistic in favor of Caen (3 draws).

Valenciennes will play away agasint Saint-Étienne on the 2nd of June with a 8-5 head to head in favor of Saint-Étienne (4 draws).

Nîmes – Formation

Nîmes adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

The manager Frédéric Bompard decided to play with the following team: Axel Maraval (6.0), Ronny Labonne (6.7), Benoît Poulain (7.4), Maël Durand de Gevigney (6.2), Kelyan Guessoum (6.1), Jean N’Guessan (7.0), Joseph Lopy (6.5), Thibault Vargas (7.0), Pablo Pagis (6.7), Rafiki Saïd (7.1) and Malik Tchokounté (6.5).

The home team had on the bench: Patrick Burner (6.4), Lucas Dias, Leon Delpech, Mehdi Zerkane (7.1), Steve Ambri (6.5), Lys Mousset (6.4) and Nicolas Benezet (7.1).

Substitutions

Nîmes made 5 changes: Ronny Labonne for Patrick Burner (46′), Malik Tchokounté for Lys Mousset (46′), Pablo Pagis for Nicolas Benezet (58′), Rafiki Saïd for Steve Ambri (62′) and Benoît Poulain for Mehdi Zerkane (81′).

Best player: Benoît Poulain​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Nîmes was Benoît Poulain.

His rating is (7.4) with 1 goal, 53 passes (90% accurate) and 1 key pass. He was won 2 duels out of 4.

Valenciennes – Formation

Also Valenciennes adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

Ahmed Kantari played with: Lassana Sy (6.2), Allan Linguet (5.8), Jordan Poha (7.2), Jonathan Buatu-Mananga (6.4), Joffrey Cuffaut (6.6), Noah Diliberto (6.5), Mohamed Kaba (7.1), Aymen Boutoutaou (8.1), Jason Berthomier (7.0), Ilyes Hamache (7.1) and Yassine Haouari (7.1).

These were the players on the bench: Guilain Zrankeon (6.3), Ugo Bonnet (6.6), Sofiane Boudraa (7.0), Florian Martin (6.7), Salim Ben Seghir, Mathieu Debuchy (6.6), Hillel Konaté and Guilain Zrankeon.

Valenciennes could not rely on the presence of G. Zrankeon (injured) and Florian Martin (injured).

Substitutions

Valenciennes made 3 changes: Y. Haouari for Ugo Bonnet (75′), Aymen Boutoutaou for Mathieu Debuchy (75′) and Ilyes Hamache for Florian Martin (75′).

Best player: Aymen Boutoutaou​

The player that probably impressed the most for Valenciennes was Aymen Boutoutaou.

His rating is (8.1) with 2 goals, 16 passes (56% accurate) and 0 key passes. He was won 8 duels out of 16. He performed 2 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Ligue 2.​

• Paris – Grenoble Foot 38 – 1-0
• Saint-Étienne – Guingamp – 3-2
• Nîmes – Valenciennes – 3-3
• Pau – Quevilly Rouen – 3-4
• Niort – Metz – 1-3
• Amiens SC – Sochaux – 1-0
• Laval – Bastia – 2-1
• Annecy – Dijon – 1-1
• Bordeaux – Caen – 1-0