Nice 1-4 Olympique Lyonnais: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 26 August 2006

Result

Nice 1-4 Olympique Lyonnais

Ligue 1 · Saturday 26 August 2006, 15:15 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Nice 1-4 Olympique Lyonnais: match report

Nice lost to Olympique Lyonnais 1-4 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 26 August 2006. The half-time score was 1-0.

M. Vahirua opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Nice's goal came from M. Vahirua (27'). Olympique Lyonnais scored through Florent Malouda (49'), Karim Benzema (70'), Tiago (74') and Karim Benzema (90+1', penalty).

Discipline: Nice received 3 yellow cards; Olympique Lyonnais received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nice were 19th on 1 point from 3 and Olympique Lyonnais 2nd on 7 points from 3. Nice went on to finish that season 16th with 43 points, and Olympique Lyonnais 1st with 81.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Nice wins, 1 draw and 1 for Olympique Lyonnais.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Yellow card · M. VahiruaNice
  • 27'Goal · M. VahiruaNice · 1-0
  • 30'Yellow card · Florent MaloudaOlympique Lyonnais
  • 45'Yellow card · TiagoOlympique Lyonnais
  • 49'Goal · Florent MaloudaOlympique Lyonnais · 1-1
  • 70'Goal · Karim BenzemaOlympique Lyonnais · 1-2
  • 70'Yellow card · Florent BalmontNice
  • 71'Yellow card · Cyril RoolNice
  • 74'Goal · TiagoOlympique Lyonnais · 1-3
  • 90+1'Penalty goal · Karim BenzemaOlympique Lyonnais · 1-4

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Nice 0, draws 1, Olympique Lyonnais 1.

Team news

Nice line-up

Hugo Lloris, Cédric Varrault, Cedric Kante, Rod Fanni, Cyril Rool, Florent Balmont, David Bellion, Bakari Koné, Marama Vahirua, Olivier Echouafni, Jacques Abardonado

Olympique Lyonnais line-up

Gregory Coupet, Anthony Reveillere, Eric Abidal, Sébastien Squillaci, Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Junior, Florent Malouda, Jérémy Toulalan, Sylvain Wiltord, Cris, Fred, Tiago