Nice 3-2 Olympique Lyonnais: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 October 2025

Result

Nice 3-2 Olympique Lyonnais

Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 October 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Nice 3-2 Olympique Lyonnais: match report

Nice beat Olympique Lyonnais 3-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 18 October 2025. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Melvin Bard opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Nice's goals came from Melvin Bard (5'), Sofiane Diop (35') and Hicham Boudaoui (55'). Olympique Lyonnais scored through Pavel Sulc (29') and Pavel Sulc (90+5').

Discipline: Nice received 1 yellow card; Olympique Lyonnais received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nice were 12th on 8 points from 7 and Olympique Lyonnais 4th on 15 points from 7. Nice went on to finish that season 16th with 32 points, and Olympique Lyonnais 4th with 60.

Nice lined up in a 3-4-3 and Olympique Lyonnais in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Pavel Sulc of Olympique Lyonnais (8.4), ahead of Sofiane Diop (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Nice wins, 2 draws and 5 for Olympique Lyonnais.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · Melvin BardNice · 1-0
  • 26'Yellow card · Clinton MataOlympique Lyonnais
  • 29'Goal · Pavel SulcOlympique Lyonnais · 1-1
  • 35'Goal · Sofiane DiopNice · 2-1
  • 53'Missed penalty · Ainsley Maitland-NilesOlympique Lyonnais
  • 55'Goal · Hicham BoudaouiNice · 3-1
  • 64'Yellow card · Charles VanhoutteNice
  • 90+5'Goal · Pavel SulcOlympique Lyonnais · 3-2
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Moussa NiakhatéOlympique Lyonnais

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nice 3, draws 2, Olympique Lyonnais 5.

Team news

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Nice line-up (3-4-3)

Yehvann Diouf, Antoine Mendy, Kojo Oppong, Dante, Jonathan Clauss, Hicham Boudaoui, Charles Vanhoutte, Melvin Bard, Mohamed-Ali Cho, Sofiane Diop, Jérémie Boga

Olympique Lyonnais line-up (4-2-3-1)

Dominik Greif, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Clinton Mata, Ruben Kluivert, Abner, Tyler Morton, Corentin Tolisso, Adam Karabec, Pavel Sulc, Malick Fofana, Martín Satriano