Nîmes 3-3 Valenciennes: result and report

Ligue 2 · Saturday 6 May 2023

Result

Nîmes 3-3 Valenciennes

Ligue 2 · Saturday 6 May 2023, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Nîmes · Valenciennes · Ligue 2 predictions

Nîmes 3-3 Valenciennes: match report

Nîmes drew with Valenciennes 3-3 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 6 May 2023. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Rafiki Saïd opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Nîmes's goals came from Rafiki Saïd (3'), Benoît Poulain (65') and Nicolas Benezet (71'). Valenciennes scored through Ilyes Hamache (44'), Aymen Boutoutaou (61') and Aymen Boutoutaou (70').

Discipline: Nîmes received 2 yellow cards; Valenciennes received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nîmes were 19th on 32 points from 33 and Valenciennes 15th on 37 points from 33. Nîmes went on to finish that season 19th with 36 points, and Valenciennes 15th with 45.

Nîmes lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Valenciennes in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Aymen Boutoutaou of Valenciennes (8.1), ahead of Benoît Poulain (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Nîmes wins, 0 draws and 1 for Valenciennes.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Rafiki SaïdNîmes · 1-0
  • 21'Yellow card · Ilyes HamacheValenciennes
  • 41'Yellow card · Malik TchokountéNîmes
  • 44'Goal · Ilyes HamacheValenciennes · 1-1
  • 61'Goal · Aymen BoutoutaouValenciennes · 1-2
  • 65'Goal · Benoît PoulainNîmes · 2-2
  • 70'Goal · Aymen BoutoutaouValenciennes · 2-3
  • 71'Goal · Nicolas BenezetNîmes · 3-3
  • 86'Yellow card · Jonathan BuatuValenciennes
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Steve AmbriNîmes

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Nîmes 0, draws 0, Valenciennes 1.

Team news

Nîmes line-up (4-2-3-1)

Axel Maraval, Ronny Labonne, Benoît Poulain, Maël de Gevigney, K. Guessoum, Jean N'Guessan, Joseph Romeric Lopy, Thibaut Vargas, Pablo Pagis, Rafiki Saïd, Malik Tchokounté

Valenciennes line-up (4-2-3-1)

Lassana Sy, Allan Linguet, Jordan Poha, Buatu, Joffrey Cuffaut, Noah Diliberto, Mohamed Kaba, Aymen Boutoutaou, Jason Berthomier, Ilyes Hamache, Yassine Haouari