This Tuesday evening, the OGC Nice had everything to lose when facing Benfica at the Estadio da Luz, after a defeat of 0-2 Lor Champion League. The mission was particularly complex for the Aiglons, who had never achieved the feat of beating a Portuguese team on its field. Franck Haise’s players, confrontation with notable multitude, pissed to reverse the trend and maintain hopes for qualifying for the group phases.
Prejudicial absences to the nice OGC
The OGC Nice experienced a difficult season start, marked by a hecatombe of blessings in its effective. Indeed, dishes key players were absent, Notary Dante, N -Dayishimiye and Ndombélé, which forces Franck Haïse to review his tactical plans. Among these absent also included midfielder Pablo Rosario, who refused to play due to an imminent transfer to FC FC Posting, letting an already weakened team fight without him.
Pour absences to overcome these, Haïs had Djibril CoulibalyOnly 16 years old, who debated an officer under the Niçois striped. Initiative of this, although courageous, testified to the precarious situation of the team. The clock which was held in front of Nice was from Ulant higher in consideration that Benfica maintained an innaincu stat against French teams on his soil. Of the Champion League, with nine participations in the last decade and several quarter -finals in his credit.
An unprecedented team composition
Pour the composer son team, Franck Haise an opta for a schema which had to maximize the channels to take the advantage against Benfica. Here is the composition chosen for this return match:
| Job | Player |
|---|---|
| Cooking | Yehvann Diouf |
| Overrun | Melvin Mendy |
| Overrun | JUMA BAH |
| Overrun | Moussa Oppong |
| medium | Jonathan Clauss |
| medium | TOM LAYCHET |
| medium | Djibril Coulibaly |
| medium | Melvin Bard |
| Attentive | Bouanani Bilal |
| Attentive | Terem Moffi |
| Attentive | Victor Jansson |
This team, although Ainxperimedy, was to face the undeniable talents of the Benfica team, who was also in a formidable opponent during the match.
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Uni Première Mid-Tempons Difficult to sink nice
Faced with a Benfica Rodée and discipline team, the OGC Nice has rapped that the task was tight. During the first act, Benfica Monttered all his mastery, shown the Niçois in the first minutes. Although the Camp son tried, a good leftist in possession was at the minins minins of the lisbotes which contains the game with precision.
The occasions settle legion for Benfica, who intensified his attacks with players like Fredrik AURSNES AND SchjelderupNe The AA placing is devastating in the Nice defense. However, despite some great breakthroughs, Nice managed to maintain the scoring at 0-0 until the first break, even a professional strike from Clauss who came close to the post.
Analysis of the forces involved
During this first period, several elements were relevant:
- Press offensive accumulation: Benfica has not ceased to put the pre -element on the defenders of Nice, successorly uttering provisional Liseurs of but.
- Defense Nice Resilient: Despite the difficult, the defensive wall of Nice, although young and not very short, managed to contain the assaults during a good game of the first act.
- Less acctility for good: The Aiglons at Panted to be dangerous, often too hesitant to the opposite of the opposing surface.
The decisive turning point: stifling benfica goals
It was in the second period that Benfica was the problem shown his pottis. First of all, at the Aursnes an open score after and superb collenive work, marking with an outdoor of the (Site notre bureau spécialisé) after a millimeter center. This but, validated after a contract to the video which avoided a hand, had the effect of a blow for Niçois already weakened by the stake.
Péu Aptrès, a second but a summer inscribed by SchjelderupValidating thus and clear advantage pouring the Portuguese. To learn an impressive new collective action, this Derrier struck at the ground of the ground, leaving the Cookian from Nice without reaction. At that time, he was clearly aroused that the OGC Nice could not come back to this meeting. A feeling of elimination was palpable among the supporters, who however made the trip hoping for a sports miracle.
Key statistics of the match
| Teammate | Tires | Creder shots | Possession (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 6 | 2 | 38 |
| Benfica | 15 | 7 | 62 |
This painting reveals Benfica superiori in the field, both in such a number of offensive and mastery of the game.
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Reactions before the match: Desillusion for OGC Nice
Unlike this meeting, the pain of elimination was palpable among the players of Nice. In a way facing the press, Franck Haise did not hide his derivitation, pointing to his team’s lack of searcher in the face of an opponent of this scale. The coach has decarged: “It is difficult to assign that he has to face this kind of arversity. Must learn from clette «
The supporters, who were present in small numbers in the stands of the Estadio Da Luz, still continued to sing, hoping for a rebound in the next deadlines. The elimination does not mark the end, but the beginning of unfemployment on the decline of the team.
Verite improvement tracks
- Strengthening the efficth: Nice will have to consider reinforcement for the rest of the season, notary at the midfielder towards compensation for absences.
- Development of the talent of young people: The intigration of young cheek like Coulibaly is promising, but also requires a prudent Gesinung to avoid very.
- Diversification of tactics: Pour to face adversaries as fearsome as Benfica, a tactical flexibilé could prove to be deceased.