Nîmes 3-2 Pau: result and report

Ligue 2 · Saturday 29 April 2023

Result

Nîmes 3-2 Pau

Ligue 2 · Saturday 29 April 2023, 17:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Nîmes 3-2 Pau: match report

Nîmes defeated Pau 3-2 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 29 April 2023. The half-time score was 2-1.

Rafiki Saïd opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Nîmes's goals came from Rafiki Saïd (2'), Malik Tchokounté (44') and K. Guessoum (90+3'). Pau scored through Henri Saivet (17') and Y. Begraoui (84', penalty).

Discipline: Nîmes received 3 yellow cards; Pau received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nîmes were 19th on 29 points from 32 and Pau 13th on 40 points from 32. Nîmes went on to finish that season 19th with 36 points, and Pau 13th with 47.

Nîmes lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Pau in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Malik Tchokounté of Nîmes (8.5), ahead of Thibaut Vargas (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nîmes win, 1 draw and 1 for Pau.

Going into the match Nîmes's last five read L-L-L-W-L and Pau's W-W-D-L-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Rafiki SaïdNîmes · 1-0
  • 17'Goal · Henri SaivetPau · 1-1
  • 27'Yellow card · D. AbziPau
  • 44'Goal · Malik TchokountéNîmes · 2-1
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Antoine BatissePau
  • 45+3'Yellow card · Xavier KouassiPau
  • 69'Yellow card · Quentin BoisgardPau
  • 80'Yellow card · K. GuessoumNîmes
  • 82'Yellow card · Axel MaravalNîmes
  • 84'Penalty goal · Y. BegraouiPau · 2-2
  • 85'Yellow card · Maël de GevigneyNîmes
  • 90+3'Goal · K. GuessoumNîmes · 3-2

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Nîmes 1, draws 1, Pau 1.

Team news

Nîmes line-up (4-2-3-1)

Axel Maraval, Ronny Labonne, Benoît Poulain, Maël de Gevigney, K. Guessoum, Jean N'Guessan, Joseph Romeric Lopy, Thibaut Vargas, Pablo Pagis, Rafiki Saïd, Malik Tchokounté

Pau line-up (4-4-2)

Jérôme Prior, Erwin Koffi, Xavier Laglais Kouassi, Jean Ruiz, Abzi Diyaeddine, Yanis Begraoui, Steeve Beusnard, Antoine Batisse, Quentin Boisgard, Henri Saivet, Mons Bassouamina