Nice 3-2 Olympique Lyonnais: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 October 2025
Result
Nice 3-2 Olympique Lyonnais
Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 October 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Nice 3-2 Olympique Lyonnais: match report
Nice beat Olympique Lyonnais 3-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 18 October 2025. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Melvin Bard opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Nice's goals came from Melvin Bard (5'), Sofiane Diop (35') and Hicham Boudaoui (55'). Olympique Lyonnais scored through Pavel Sulc (29') and Pavel Sulc (90+5').
Discipline: Nice received 1 yellow card; Olympique Lyonnais received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nice were 12th on 8 points from 7 and Olympique Lyonnais 4th on 15 points from 7. Nice went on to finish that season 16th with 32 points, and Olympique Lyonnais 4th with 60.
Nice lined up in a 3-4-3 and Olympique Lyonnais in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Pavel Sulc of Olympique Lyonnais (8.4), ahead of Sofiane Diop (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Nice wins, 2 draws and 5 for Olympique Lyonnais.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Melvin Bard
- 26'Yellow card · Clinton Mata
- 29'Goal · Pavel Sulc
- 35'Goal · Sofiane Diop
- 53'Missed penalty · Ainsley Maitland-Niles
- 55'Goal · Hicham Boudaoui
- 64'Yellow card · Charles Vanhoutte
- 90+5'Goal · Pavel Sulc
- 90+6'Yellow card · Moussa Niakhaté
Head-to-head
Team news
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- Orel Mangala
- Ernest Nuamah
- Mohamed Abdelmonem
- Youssouf Ndayishimiye
- Rémy Descamps
- Moïse Bombito
- Terem Moffi
- Ali Abdi
Nice line-up (3-4-3)
Yehvann Diouf, Antoine Mendy, Kojo Oppong, Dante, Jonathan Clauss, Hicham Boudaoui, Charles Vanhoutte, Melvin Bard, Mohamed-Ali Cho, Sofiane Diop, Jérémie Boga
Olympique Lyonnais line-up (4-2-3-1)
Dominik Greif, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Clinton Mata, Ruben Kluivert, Abner, Tyler Morton, Corentin Tolisso, Adam Karabec, Pavel Sulc, Malick Fofana, Martín Satriano