Lorient 4-1 Nice: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 18 October 2009

Result

Lorient 4-1 Nice

Ligue 1 · Sunday 18 October 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Lorient 4-1 Nice: match report

Lorient defeated Nice 4-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 18 October 2009. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Arnold Mvuemba opened the scoring in the 39th minute. Lorient's goals came from Arnold Mvuemba (39'), M. Vahirua (48'), Sigamary Diarra (77') and Kévin Gameiro (89'). Nice scored through Loïc Rémy (61').

Discipline: Lorient received 1 yellow card; Nice received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Lorient were 6th on 14 points from 8 and Nice 19th on 8 points from 8. Lorient went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Nice 15th with 44.

Lorient lined up in a 4-4-2 and Nice in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Lorient win, 2 draws and 3 for Nice.

Going into the match Lorient's last five read W-D-W-L-W and Nice's W-D-L-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 39'Goal · Arnold MvuembaLorient · 1-0
  • 48'Goal · M. VahiruaLorient · 2-0
  • 61'Goal · Loïc RémyNice · 2-1
  • 69'Yellow card · E. FaéNice
  • 71'Yellow card · A. Le LanLorient
  • 77'Goal · Sigamary DiarraLorient · 3-1
  • 89'Goal · Kévin GameiroLorient · 4-1
  • 90'Second yellow · E. FaéNice

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Lorient 1, draws 2, Nice 3.

Team news

Lorient line-up (4-4-2)

Fabien Audard, Laurent Koscielny, Arnaud Le Lan, Maxine Baca, Sylvain Marchal, Arnold Mvuemba, Morgan Amalfitano, Pierre Ducasse, Kévin Gameiro, Sigamary Diarra, Marama Vahirua

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

David Ospina, Larrys Mabiala, Gerald Cid, Gregory Paisley, David Hellebuyck, Emerse Fae, Kafoumba Coulibaly, Loïc Rémy, Chaouki Ben Saada, Habib Bamogo, Olivier Echouafni