Nice 3-2 Rennes: result and report
Ligue 1 · Friday 3 January 2025
Result
Nice 3-2 Rennes
Ligue 1 · Friday 3 January 2025, 20:00 UTC · half-time 3-1
Nice 3-2 Rennes: match report
Nice defeated Rennes 3-2 in Ligue 1 on Friday 3 January 2025. It was 3-1 at half-time.
Evann Guessand opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Nice's goals came from Evann Guessand (12'), Sofiane Diop (34') and Gaëtan Laborde (45+5'). Rennes scored through Arnaud Kalimuendo (27') and Adrien Truffert (49').
Discipline: Nice received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Rennes received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nice were 6th on 24 points from 15 and Rennes 12th on 17 points from 15. Nice went on to finish that season 4th with 60 points, and Rennes 12th with 41.
Nice lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Rennes in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Evann Guessand of Nice (8.0), ahead of Tanguy Ndombélé (7.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Nice wins, 2 draws and 3 for Rennes.
Key events
- 10'Yellow card · Hicham Boudaoui
- 12'Goal · Evann Guessand
- 27'Goal · Arnaud Kalimuendo
- 31'Yellow card · Lorenz Assignon
- 34'Goal · Sofiane Diop
- 45+5'Goal · Gaëtan Laborde
- 49'Goal · Adrien Truffert
- 61'Yellow card · Jorge Sampaoli
- 61'Yellow card · Azor Matusiwa
- 66'Yellow card · Sofiane Diop
- 90+2'Red card · Pablo Rosario
- 90+3'Yellow card · Ludovic Blas
- 90+3'Yellow card · Youssouf Ndayishimiye
Head-to-head
Team news
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Nice line-up (4-2-3-1)
Marcin Bulka, Antoine Mendy, Youssouf Ndayishimiye, Mohamed Abdelmonem, Melvin Bard, Hicham Boudaoui, Tanguy Ndombélé, Evann Guessand, Badredine Bouanani, Sofiane Diop, Gaëtan Laborde
Rennes line-up (3-4-2-1)
Steve Mandanda, Hans Hateboer, Leo Østigård, Mikayil Faye, Lorenz Assignon, Jordan James, Azor Matusiwa, Adrien Truffert, Ludovic Blas, Albert Grønbæk, Arnaud Kalimuendo