Week 35 brings us a match on May 1st, where Nice and Bordeaux will play a match in Bordeaux in a Ligue 1 match. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 16 degrees, which is great football weather. Bordeaux sits at 19th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 3-5 loss against Nantes. M’Baye Niang scored the first goal for Bordeaux in the 6th minute, then Javairô Dilrosun added another in the 18th minute on a feed from M’Baye Niang Finally they completed the comback in the 76th minute on a goal by Moses Simon to cap off a wild match. Bordeaux looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10, while 5th placed Nice is fresh off their 1-0 shutout win against Troyes. Khépren Thuram struck first for Nice in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time on a feed from Evann Guessand, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Troyes couldn’t muster any offence and Nice ran away with the shutout win. Nice is looking for direction having 4 win and 3 losses in their last 10 matches.
In their last match on Saturday Aug 28th, Nice was victorious by a score of 4 to 0 in front of just over zero thousand jubilant spectators. Justin Kluivert scored the first goal for Nice in the 7th minute, then Amine Gouiri added another in the 33rd minute on a feed from Justin Kluivert In the end, Bordeaux was frustrated by Nice’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Nice ended the match with the shutout victory.
Andy Delort has been the most prolific scorer on Nice in his last five matches with three goals. Both Mara and M’Baye Niang have been the hottest scorers for Bordeaux in the last five each having scored 2 goals each
David Guion’s Bordeaux squad will be without Jimmy Briand, Danylo Ihnatenko, Marcelo, Stian Gregersen, Timothee Pembele and Abdel Jalil Medioub, while Morgan Schneiderlin, Youcef Atal, Alexis Claude Maurice and Danilo are unavailable to play for Nice.