Nîmes 1-3 Sochaux: result and report
Ligue 2 · Saturday 16 April 2022
Result
Nîmes 1-3 Sochaux
Ligue 2 · Saturday 16 April 2022, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Nîmes 1-3 Sochaux: match report
Nîmes lost to Sochaux 1-3 in Ligue 2 on Saturday 16 April 2022. The half-time score was 1-1.
Julien Ponceau opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Nîmes's goal came from Julien Ponceau (4'). Sochaux scored through Ousseynou Thioune (39'), Alan Virginius (70') and Y. Kitala (80').
Discipline: Nîmes received 1 yellow card; Sochaux received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nîmes were 13th on 40 points from 32 and Sochaux 5th on 57 points from 32. Nîmes went on to finish that season 9th with 49 points, and Sochaux 4th with 72.
Nîmes lined up in a 3-5-2 and Sochaux in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Alan Virginius of Sochaux (7.8), ahead of Ousseynou Thioune (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Nîmes wins, 2 draws and 5 for Sochaux.
Going into the match Nîmes's last five read D-L-L-L-W and Sochaux's W-W-W-D-L.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Julien Ponceau
- 35'Yellow card · Lamine Fomba
- 39'Goal · Ousseynou Thioune
- 70'Goal · Alan Virginius
- 73'Yellow card · Y. Kaabouni
- 80'Goal · Y. Kitala
- 90+3'Yellow card · Abdallah Ndour
- 90+4'Missed penalty · Moussa Koné
Head-to-head
Team news
Nîmes line-up (3-5-2)
Per Kristian Bråtveit, Naomichi Ueda, Pablo Martinez, Moustapha Mbow, Gaëtan Paquiez, Lamine Fomba, Antoine Valério, Julien Ponceau, Niclas Eliasson, Yassine Benrahou, Moussa Koné
Sochaux line-up (4-2-3-1)
Maxence Prévot, Valentin Henry, Florentin Pogba, Christophe Diedhiou, Abdallah N'Dour, Ousseynou Thioune, Rassoul Ndiaye, Tony Mauricio, Younès Kaabouni, Maxime Do Couto, Aldo Kalulu