Nice and Rennes will face on Saturday the 2nd of April at 15:00 in the 30th week of the Ligue 1. The match will take place in Nice at the Allianz Riviera. The encounter will be officiated by Benoît Bastien.
Nice occupies the 4th place in the standings with 50 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Olympique Marseille in its last match in the Ligue 1. So far, it has won 15 times, draw 6 times, and lost 8 times.
Rennes is in the 3rd position in the league with 52 points. It comes from a 6-1 win against Metz in its last match in the Ligue 1. To date, it has won 16 times, draw 4 times, and lost 9 times.
Rennes won the last 5 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 11th of February against Paris Saint Germain and the score was 1-0.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Nice
Nice has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (28 times or 96.55%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (28 times) and 5-4-1 (once).
Christophe Galtier is expected to play against Rennes with the following players: W. Benítez, M. Bard, J. Todibo, J. Lotomba, P. Rosario, K. Thuram-Ulien, M. Lemina, M. Schneiderlin, C. Stengs, A. Delort and A. Gouiri.
In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Nice would be 25.73.
Rennes
Rennes has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-3-3 and 4-4-2 (13 times or 44.83% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (13 times), 4-4-2 (13 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Bruno Génésio is expected to play against Nice with the following players: D. Alemdar, B. Meling, W. Omari, N. Aguerd, H. Traoré, B. Santamaría, F. Tait, L. Majer, M. Terrier, B. Bourigeaud and S. Guirassy.
Granting that the line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Rennes would be 25.91.
Bruno Génésio will probably not be able to employ R. Salin, L. Badé, K. Sulemana and J. Doku because of injury.
A. Gomis and J. Gelin will definitely miss the match.