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Lille did the hard part by finally finding the fault in the Nantes block. This goal could well free up the debates and open up the game for both sides.
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT OF HAKON HARALDSSON!! On a much too risky restart from Awaziem, Tabibou lost his support under pressure from FĂ©lix Correia. The Portuguese recovers and serves Giroud, who puts in a touch for Haraldsson. The Icelandic midfielder followed up with a perfect curling shot, which landed on the left of Lopes.
Found in space by Leroux, Guirassy tries to escape on the left flank and challenges Mbemba one on one. The Congolese defender does not allow himself to be trapped and cuts the action with authority, complete control.
Quiet start to the match at La Beaujoire. The two teams are watching each other, favoring security and are currently struggling to create real gaps in the final third.
LOSC monopolized the ball at the start of the match, imposing its pace and technical mastery from the start. Opposite, Nantes remains compact and applies coordinated pressing which limits the spaces and prevents Lille from approaching Lopes' goal.
Lille gets a first corner and tries a two-way combination, but the action lacks precision. The Nantes defense watches and wards off the danger without difficulty.
IT'S GOING TO NANTES!!
The players enter the pitch!
Lille’s starting lineup: Ă–zer – Meunier, Mandi, Mbemba, Perraud – AndrĂ© (c), Bouaddi – Fernandez-Pardo, Haraldsson, FĂ©lix Correia – Giroud.
Nantes’ starting lineup: Lopes – Amian (cap.), Awaziem, Tati, Leroux – Kwon, Mwanga, Tabibou – Guirassy, ​​Mohamed, Abline.
Bruno Genesio also has to deal with a diminished group. The Lille technician does without the services of Marc-Aurèle Caillard, Alexsandro, Tiago Santos, Ousmane Touré, Nabil Bentaleb and Ngal'ayel Mukau, all injured. A series of absences which limits defensive options and forces the coach to reshuffle his starting lineup.
Luis Castro must do without three important elements of his squad. Francis Coquelin, Johann Lepenant and Mayckel Lahdo are all injured and out of this match. A hard blow for the Nantes technician, who loses valuable solutions in the midfield and on the sides.
Nantes and Lille never give up an inch: the two teams have the best rates of duels won in Ligue 1 this season (52.9% for Nantes, 52.6% for Lille). But the resemblance ends there. The Mastiffs attack high, starting their actions on average 47 meters from their goal – only Paris does better – while Nantes remains cautious, initiating its game 9 meters lower. A face-to-face encounter of styles, between intensity and space management.
LOSC is going through a slight air gap after a good series. Three matches without a win (1 draw, 2 defeats) for Bruno Genesio's men, a sequence that they have not experienced since the spring of 2022. Remaining silent in Lens during the last trip (3-0), the Northerners will have to react to avoid a second consecutive goalless outing, an anomaly that they have not experienced since May 2023.
Three draws in a row is the current run for Luis Castro's men. A form of regularity, certainly, but no click yet. The Canaries remain solid at home with their last two matches without defeat (1-0 against Auxerre, 2-2 against Rennes) and are now aiming for a third consecutive positive reception – a first since the start of the year.
Since the turn of the century, Nantes has been going through a real ordeal against Lille: only 5 victories in 39 Ligue 1 matches, or a modest 12.8%. The Mastiffs remain an opponent who is hardly successful for the Canaries, beaten 13 times in the last 19 duels. The only bright spot in this dark series: the success at La Beaujoire last season (1-0, March 15, 2025).
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