Nice vs Lorient

Match summary

Neither Nice nor Lorient found the net in a 0-0 draw.

Lorient had the better of the chances, with 2.07 expected goals (xG) from 10 shots to Nice's 1.09 from 14.

Nice and Lorient played out a goalless draw in their Ligue 1 fixture on matchday one. Despite dominating possession with sixty percent of the ball and registering fourteen shots to their opponents ten, Nice were unable to find the breakthrough, finishing the match with an expected goals figure of 1.09 compared to Lorient's superior 2.07. The hosts also recorded more corners at nine to three, completed six hundred and thirty passes at an accuracy of eighty-eight percent, and led in dangerous attacks at fifty-three to forty-two, though Lorient created the higher quality opportunities over the course of the ninety minutes.

The first notable chance arrived in the thirteenth minute when Nice player Sofiane Diop had a shot on target with an expected goals value of 0.36. Lorient's Jean-Victor Makengo missed the target in the twenty-fourth minute from an opportunity valued at 0.51 expected goals. The only disciplinary action of the first half occurred in the thirty-seventh minute when Zoumana Diallo received a yellow card for a foul, before the teams reached half-time with the score goalless. A series of substitutions were made by both sides in the second half, and in the ninety-first minute Lorient's Aiyegun Tosin missed a late chance with an expected goals rating of 0.49, leaving the final score at 0-0.