Total devastation on the French Riviera. Nice are in total dismay at the start of the new season and old/new coach Lucien Favre is going through hell. Nice can’t match with the best in France right now, they are miles away. Marseille dismantled them, broke them to pieces and put a ton of worries on the shoulders of the Swiss tactician, who is partially blamed, since he doesn’t have his best players available,, but there can be no justification for the total loss: Nice – Marseille 3:0 (3:0).1 – Alexis Sanchez has scored at least one goal in every season since his top five European leagues debut in 2008-09. Over the period, only Luka Modric, Kevin Gameiro, Karim Benzema and Lionel Messi have managed to do so. Experience. #OGCNOM pic.twitter.com/YAOVY4MPBx— OptaJean (@OptaJean) August 28, 2022 After a last year’s fifth position (only due to goal difference) under Christophe Galtier, Nice is currently in 19th place, with only two draws in four matches. The club from the French Riviera is in crisis, and the worst is yet to come. They are about to start competing in Conference League, which means the team will have to play in a Thursday – Sunday rhythm until the World Cup, and they need to get out of the crisis as quickly as possible.
Marseille was left without their striker Arkadiusz Milik, but they were prepared for such a scenario at the Velodrome. They made moves in advance, prepared the field and finally got Alexis Sanchez. While he was at Inter, he most often shot blanks, he did not justify the trust, and in his first two appearances in League 1, he fasted. He made up for all the mistakes at the place where hooligan riots started in France last season, when Dimitri Payet was hit with a bottle. New coach Igor Tudor already made enemies in the locker room, but so far, everything is good on the field, including today. Unlike other matches, his captain Payet started the match, and Sanchez will make headlines with two goals, along with one from Arsenal’s loanee Nuno Tavares.
Nice will continue their quest for the first win against Lille and Monaco before they host Cologne in the Conference league, while the visitors are travelling to London to face Tottenham in the first round of the Champions League, but play easy games against newly promoted Auxerre and Clermont.LIGUE 1 – MATCHDAY 4FridayAjaccio – Lille 1-3 (0-2)/Bayala 84 – Yazici 17, Bamba 43, Djalo 67/SaturdayAuxerre – Strasbourg 1-0 (1-0)/Perrin 29/Lens – Rennes 2-1 (0-0)/Fofana 66, Openda 70 – Laborde 90+1/SundayNantes – Toulouse Brest – Montpellier 0-7 (0-5)/Maouassa 6, Wahi 10, 31, Khazri 11, Kozza 25, Germain 64, 84/Lorient – Clermont 2-1 (1-0)/Moffi 24, 41 – Cham 62/Nice – Olympique Marseille 0-3 (0-3) /Sanchez 10, 42. Tavares 37/Troyes – Angers 3-1 (1-0)/Ripart 12, Balde 61, Odobert 82 – Dioni 67/18.05: (4.80) Reims (3.60) Olympique Lyon (1.77)21.45: (1.20) PSG (7.25) Monaco (12.0)***odds are subject to change