Valenciennes 0-3 Nîmes: result and report

Ligue 2 · Saturday 7 August 2021

Result

Valenciennes 0-3 Nîmes

Ligue 2 · Saturday 7 August 2021, 17:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Valenciennes 0-3 Nîmes: match report

Valenciennes lost to Nîmes 0-3 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 7 August 2021. The half-time score was 0-0.

Elías Már Ómarsson opened the scoring in the 56th minute. Valenciennes did not score. Nîmes scored through Elías Már Ómarsson (56'), Yassine Benrahou (81') and Niclas Eliasson (83').

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

Going into the game Valenciennes were 12th on 2 points from 2 and Nîmes 8th on 4 points from 2. Valenciennes went on to finish that season 16th with 44 points, and Nîmes 9th with 49.

Valenciennes lined up in a 4-4-2 and Nîmes in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Yassine Benrahou of Nîmes (8.8), ahead of Andrés Cubas (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Valenciennes wins, 1 draw and 7 for Nîmes.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 28'Yellow card · Joffrey CuffautValenciennes
  • 32'Yellow card · Lamine FombaNîmes
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Elías Már ÓmarssonNîmes
  • 56'Goal · Elías Már ÓmarssonNîmes · 0-1
  • 70'Yellow card · S. YatabaréValenciennes
  • 81'Goal · Yassine BenrahouNîmes · 0-2
  • 83'Goal · Niclas EliassonNîmes · 0-3

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Valenciennes 0, draws 1, Nîmes 7.

Team news

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Valenciennes line-up (4-4-2)

Saturnin Allagbé, Laurent Dos Santos, Emmanuel Ntim, Joffrey Cuffaut, Aly Abeid, Abou Ouattara, Sessi D'Almeida, Julien Masson, Gaëtan Robail, Baptiste Guillaume, Aymen Boutoutaou

Nîmes line-up (4-1-4-1)

Per Kristian Bråtveit, Patrick Burner, Naomichi Ueda, Pablo Martinez, Théo Sainte-Luce, Andrés Cubas, Yassine Benrahou, Lamine Fomba, Antoine Valério, Julien Ponceau, Elías Már Ómarsson