So it wasn’t for this time. In a rather very good European week for French clubs, the OGC Nice failed to win (finally) a Europa League match.
After his nightmarish campaign last season (35th out of 36), the gym conceded his second setback in two games, losing on the field of Fenerbahçe (2-1), a week after being beaten by AS Rome (1-2).
In Turkish hell, Franck Haise's men held … 2 minutes. The time of a loss of ball from Melvin Bard, and a counterattack in one pass towards Kerem Akturkoglu, who left in the back of Jonathan Clauss to go and deceive Yehvann Diouf (1-0, 3rd).
It's a shame, because the French Riviera club was not ridiculous on this meeting, far from it. There would have been enough to sink after the double of Akturkoglu, who too easily crossed the Nice defense (2-0, 25th). But the Aiglons had the merit of reacting well, and reducing the gap on a penalty consecutive to a hand of Milan Skriniar, and transformed by Kevin Carlos (2-1, 37th).
Nice is hard
Unfortunately, Nice failed to reverse the steam in the second period, being only dangerous on a distant strike from Terem Moffi (68th). And if there is nothing infamous to lose against two big names like Roma and Fenerbahçe, this is now 14 games without victory on the European scene for the OGCN, and the observation is quite tough.
To stay in the current season, it's also four games without victory for Dante's teammates (absent this Thursday evening), adding the slap received in Brest (4-1) and the draw against Paris FC (1-1). It will be necessary to react, and it will not be simple. The program for coming days? The derby against Monaco, then a duel of Europeans in Lyon after the international break. And it is on the lawn of Celta de Vigo, then, that we will have to stop the ugly European series…
