Nice and Clermont are going to clash on Sunday the 6th of February at 14:00 in the 23rd week of the Ligue 1. The match is going to take place in Nice at the Allianz Riviera. The chosen referee is Jérôme Brisard.
Nice is in the 3rd position in the standings with 42 points. It comes from a 0-2 win against Metz in its last match in the Ligue 1. As of now, it has won 13 times, draw 4 times, and lost 5 times.
Nice won the last 5 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 5th of December against Strasbourg and the score was 0-3.
Clermont is in the 15th position in the standings with 21 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Rennes in its last match in the Ligue 1. As of now, it has won 5 times, draw 6 times, and lost 11 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Nice
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (22 times).
Christophe Galtier is expected to play against Clermont with the following players: W. Benítez, J. Amavi, D. da Costa Santos, J. Todibo, J. Lotomba, J. Kluivert, K. Thuram-Ulien, M. Lemina, H. Boudaoui, A. Gouiri and K. Dolberg.
Suppose that the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Nice would be 26.00.
Christophe Galtier will not be able to have the presence of P. Rosario who is suspended.
Clermont
Clermont has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (20 times or 90.91%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (20 times) and 4-3-3 (2 times).
Pascal Gastien is expected to play against Nice with the following players: O. Djoco, V. N’Simba, A. Seidu, C. Hountondji, A. Zedadka, J. Berthomier, S. Samed, J. Gastien, E. Rashani, L. Da Cunha and P. Hamel.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Clermont would be 26.91.
Pascal Gastien will probably not be able to employ F. Ogier, S. Khaoui, J. Allevinah and M. Bayo because of injury.
J. Billong will definitely miss the match.