DéCINES-CHARPIEU. Olympique Lyonnais beats Nice 1-0 after O. Mangala scored just 1 goal (22′).

The match was played at the Groupama Stadium stadium in Décines-Charpieu on Friday and it started at 9:00 pm local time. The referee was Clément Turpin with the collaboration of Nicolas Danos and Erwan Finjean. The 4th official was Antoine Valnet. The weather was overcast clouds. The temperature was cold at 13.19 degrees Celsius or 55.74 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 80%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

No teams had a vastly superior advantage in terms of ball possession. Olympique Lyonnais was in possession of the ball for 48% of the time vs. Nice that controlled the ball for 52% of the time.

Attitude and shots

Nice was more pushing with 54 dangerous attacks and 20 shots of which 6 were on target. Even so, Olympique Lyonnais was capable to find the solution to win this match.​

Olympique Lyonnais shot 9 times, 1 on target, 4 off target. Talking about the opposition, Nice shot 20 times, 6 on target, 6 off target.

Cards

Olympique Lyonnais didn’t receive any yellow card. On the other side, Nice received 1 yellow card (Youssouf Ndayishimiye).

Standings

After this encounter, Olympique Lyonnais has 25 points like Strasbourg to remain in the 11th place. On the opposite side, Nice will stays with 39 points to sit in the 2nd place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Ligue 1, Olympique Lyonnais will play away against Metz on the 25th of February with a 15-4 head to head stats in favor of Olympique Lyonnais (2 draws).

Nice will host Clermont on the 25th of February with a 3-2 head to head statistic in favor of Clermont (0 draws).

Olympique Lyonnais – Formation

Olympique Lyonnais adopted the aggressive line-up (4-3-3).

The manager Pierre Sage decided to play with the following team: Anthony Lopes (8.5), Ainsley Maitland-Niles (7.1), Clinton Mata (7.9), Duje Caleta-Car (7.3), Nicolás Tagliafico (7.1), Maxence Caqueret (7.5), Nemanja Matić (7.5), Orel Mangala (7.9), Ernest Nuamah (6.8), Alexandre Lacazette (7.0) and Saïd Benrahma (7.0).

The home team had on the bench: Adryelson, Sinaly Diomandé, Paul Akouokou, Mama Baldé, Gift Emmanuel Orban (6.7), Malick Fofana (6.8), Rayan Cherki (7.0), Saël Kumbedi and Lucas Perri.

Substitutions

Olympique Lyonnais made 3 changes: Orel Mangala for Malick Fofana (74′), Ernest Nuamah for Rayan Cherki (79′) and Saïd Benrahma for Gift Emmanuel Orban (74′).

Player of the match: Anthony Lopes​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Olympique Lyonnais was the goalkeeper: Anthony Lopes. His rating is 8.47. He performed 6 saves.

Nice – Formation

Also Nice adopted the aggressive line-up (4-3-3).

Francesco Farioli played with: Marcin Bulka (6.3), Jordan Lotomba (7.0), Jean-Clair Todibo (7.0), Youssouf Ndayishimiye (7.0), Melvin Bard (7.7), Morgan Sanson (7.0), Pablo Rosario (7.5), Khéphren Thuram (7.3), Mohamed-Ali Cho (7.3), Evann Guessand (6.4) and Gaëtan Laborde (7.0).

The following players were sitting on the bench: Valentin Rosier, Jérémie Boga (7.5), Terem Moffi (6.7), Romain Perraud, Alexis Claude-Maurice (6.7), Aliou Baldé (6.8), Maxime Dupé, Tom Louchet (6.6) and Antoine Mendy.

Substitutions

Nice made 5 changes: Evann Guessand for Terem Moffi (59′), Gaëtan Laborde for Jérémie Boga (59′), Youssouf Ndayishimiye for Alexis Claude-Maurice (59′), Morgan Sanson for Tom Louchet (71′) and Mohamed-Ali Cho for Aliou Baldé (81′).

Player of the match: Melvin Bard​

The most impressive player for Nice was Melvin Bard.

His rating is 7.7 with 38 passes (87% accurate) and 1 key pass. He won 11 duels out of 17. He performed 9 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Ligue 1.​

• Olympique Lyonnais – Nice – 1-0