Football news and preview: Nice favourites when Angers SCO arrive

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Competition: France Ligue 1
Competition: Sun 18.September
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Allianz Riviera (36178 seats)

The home advantage belongs to Nice in this match versus Angers SCO, but the guests will battle to the end. Here's our match preview!

Insights:
  • Nice have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Ligue 1
  • Angers SCO have the most conceded goals (18) in Ligue 1

Angers SCO have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1000 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

These are hectic days for the home side, as they played only three days ago in the Europa Conference League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Partizan.

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Nice form and stats

Three Ligue 1 home games done for Nice, who are not happy collecting 1 point from these matches.

The Nice boss Favre and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Partizan in the Europa Conference League. Defender Dante got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.61/10. Dante hit one key pass and won 7 of 8 duels.

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Ajaccio.

Nice has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 1 goal from 3 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Nice defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Angers SCO form and stats

The Ligue 1 season is young and Angers SCO have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Angers SCO are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

Hunou and Boufal scored in Angers SCO's previous match, the home game against Montpellier that ended 2-1. Yippee; their first victory in the league after eight games not winning. Boufal got a match rating of 7.15 in that game, top player of the team. Boufal scored one goal, hit the woodwork once and hit one key pass.

Prior to that match, the Angers SCO manager Baticle faced defeat when travelling to Olympique Lyonnais and losing 0-5.

Goal fest? This club have played 6 consecutive league matches all having at least three goals (over 2.5 goals).

Angers can't defend away. 10 goals have been scored by the opposition in 3 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Nice have been victorious in every one of the 4 most recent duels versus this opponent. Can they do it again?

Top Goalscorers

NiceA. Delort
A. Delort
3 goals
Angers SCOS. Boufal
S. Boufal
3 goals
Angers SCOL. Diony
L. Diony
2 goals

Nice missing players

Angers SCO missing players

Nice Angers SCO
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
7 3 1 Played P 1 3 7
2 0 0 Won W 0 0 1
2 1 1 Drew D 0 1 2
3 2 0 Lost L 1 2 4
5 1 1 Scored S 1 3 8
8 5 1 Conceded C 3 10 18
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 86%
57% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 86%
29% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 86%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 100% 71%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 29%
43% 33% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 71%
14% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
43% 67% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 29%
 
4.6 5.7 7 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.7 3.3
4.4 4.7 3 Corners against (avg) C A 8 8.3 6.4
2.4 1.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.3 2.1
2 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
11.6 13.7 12 Shots (avg) S ( 7 8.7 10
3.1 3 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2 3.7
23% 11% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 50% 31%
 
10.6 11.3 9 Shots against (avg) S A 27 21 15.3
3.6 3.7 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 13 11.3 7.6
Key stats in Ligue 1 this season:
  • All of Angers SCO's away-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
  • Angers SCO have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Angers SCO have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Angers SCO have the most conceded goals (18) in Ligue 1
  • Angers SCO have the most conceded goals in the first half (10) in Ligue 1
  • Angers SCO have the the worst goal difference (-10) in Ligue 1
  • Angers SCO have yet to win a game away.
  • Nice have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Ligue 1
  • Nice have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Nice have yet to win a game at home.
  • Nice haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 PSG 7 6 1 0 25 4 3 2 1 0 7 3 4 4 0 0 18 1 21 19
2 Olympique Marseille 7 6 1 0 15 4 4 4 0 0 9 3 3 2 1 0 6 1 11 19
3 Lens 7 5 2 0 16 7 4 4 0 0 11 5 3 1 2 0 5 2 9 17
4 Lorient 7 5 1 1 14 11 3 3 0 0 8 4 4 2 1 1 6 7 3 16
5 Olympique Lyonnais 7 4 1 2 16 9 4 4 0 0 13 3 3 0 1 2 3 6 7 13
6 Rennes 7 3 2 2 13 7 4 3 0 1 10 3 3 0 2 1 3 4 6 11
7 Monaco 7 3 2 2 10 12 4 1 1 2 6 10 3 2 1 0 4 2 -2 11
8 Lille 7 3 1 3 14 15 3 1 0 2 6 10 4 2 1 1 8 5 -1 10
9 Clermont 7 3 1 3 8 10 3 2 0 1 3 5 4 1 1 2 5 5 -2 10
10 Montpellier 7 3 0 4 17 14 4 2 0 2 7 7 3 1 0 2 10 7 3 9
11 Toulouse 7 2 2 3 8 11 4 1 2 1 4 6 3 1 0 2 4 5 -3 8
12 Nice 7 2 2 3 5 8 3 0 1 2 1 5 4 2 1 1 4 3 -3 8
13 Troyes 7 2 1 4 11 15 3 1 1 1 4 5 4 1 0 3 7 10 -4 7
14 Auxerre 7 2 1 4 7 16 3 1 1 1 3 4 4 1 0 3 4 12 -9 7
15 Nantes 7 1 3 3 8 11 3 1 1 1 4 5 4 0 2 2 4 6 -3 6
16 Reims 7 1 3 3 10 14 3 0 2 1 4 6 4 1 1 2 6 8 -4 6
17 Strasbourg 7 0 5 2 5 7 4 0 3 1 3 4 3 0 2 1 2 3 -2 5
18 Brest 7 1 2 4 8 17 3 0 2 1 2 9 4 1 0 3 6 8 -9 5
19 Angers SCO 7 1 2 4 8 18 4 1 1 2 5 8 3 0 1 2 3 10 -10 5
20 Ajaccio 7 0 1 6 3 11 4 0 1 3 1 5 3 0 0 3 2 6 -8 1

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Ligue 1 is the top league in the French football league system. Seasons run from August to May with 20 teams playing a total of 380 fixtures. The team topping the league table after the final game is the champion of France, receiving the trophy L’Hexagoal. Ligue 1 is one of the top five European leagues.