Nice 0-3 Montpellier: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 29 August 2009
Result
Nice 0-3 Montpellier
Ligue 1 · Saturday 29 August 2009, 17:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Nice 0-3 Montpellier: match report
Nice lost to Montpellier 0-3 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 29 August 2009. The half-time score was 0-1.
Geoffrey Dernis opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Nice did not score. Montpellier scored through Geoffrey Dernis (4'), Victor Montano (49') and Lilian Compan (77').
Discipline: Nice received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Montpellier received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Nice were 14th on 4 points from 3 and Montpellier 10th on 5 points from 3. Nice went on to finish that season 15th with 44 points, and Montpellier 5th with 67.
Nice lined up in a 4-4-2 and Montpellier in a 4-1-2-3.
Going into the match Nice's last five read L-D-W and Montpellier's W-D-D.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Geoffrey Dernis
- 49'Goal · Victor Montano
- 61'Yellow card · Onyekachi Apam
- 75'Yellow card · Joris Marveaux
- 77'Goal · Lilian Compan
- 81'Second yellow · Onyekachi Apam
Team news
Nice line-up (4-4-2)
David Ospina, Onyekachi Apam, Larrys Mabiala, Drissa Diakite, Gerald Cid, David Hellebuyck, Mahamane Traore, Loïc Rémy, Eric Mouloungui, Habib Bamogo, Julien Sable
Montpellier line-up (4-1-2-3)
Geoffrey Jourdren, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Abdelhamid El Kaoutari, Joris Marveaux, Geoffrey Dernis, Tino Costa, Younès Belhanda, Victor Hugo Montano, Nenad Dzodic, Romain Pitau, Cyril Jeunechamp