Comments and predictions for Nice vs Nantes: Crush the canaries

Latest Nice vs Nantes team information

Dante's late red card in the defeat to Monaco means the veteran Nice centre-back will be suspended for this game. He joins Melvin Bard on the absentee list, with the left-back serving an extended ban for his second red card in four games.

Nice have just one injury concern, with key midfielder Tanguy Ndombele currently sidelined with a groin problem.

However, the home side were consoled by the return of Morgan Sanson and Terem Moffi to the squad last weekend, with Moffi coming on for the final 10 minutes after a lengthy injury lay-off with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.

Nantes are also without a key defender due to suspension. Jean-Charles Castelletto will miss his second consecutive game after being sent off against Lille before the international break.

Goalkeeper Alban Lafont and defender Fabien Centonze remain out of the squad, while Adel Mahamoud, despite playing two games for Comoros over the break, has yet to play a minute for his club this season and was absent again over the weekend.

Muscle injuries have kept Marcus Coco and Tino Kadewere out of action, Nathan Zeze is also sidelined with an ankle problem, while Pedro Chirivella was forced off before half-time in last week's defeat to Le Havre.

Latest expected lineup Nice vs Nantes

Nice:
Bulka; Bombito, Ndayishimiye, Abdelmonem; Clauss, Rosario, Santamaria, Abdi; Guessand, Laborde, Boga

Nantes:
Lopes; Amian, Sow, Pallois, Cozza; Lepenant, Douglas Augusto; Thomas, Abline, Simon; Mohamed

Latest Nice vs Nantes football review

Despite opening the scoring before half-time in a crucial clash with top-four rivals Monaco on Saturday evening, Nice missed the chance to move up to second place as they lost 2-1 away from home.

The result means Nice have picked up just one point from their last three games, and manager Franck Haise was clearly angry as he publicly criticised owner Jim Ratcliffe for not having attended a single game this season.

Ratcliffe has said he has no interest in watching Nice play, and if Haise's men do not improve their form in the remaining seven rounds, they are in serious danger of losing their current position in the top four.

Nice’s final three away games are against Strasbourg, Paris Saint-Germain and Rennes – the three most in-form teams in France at the moment, so their home results on the Riviera must be near perfect.

With upcoming games against Nantes, Angers, Reims and Brest – opponents who have not been in good form recently – Nice have a big advantage, especially as they are the earliest to play this round, giving them a second chance to temporarily climb to second place.

With just two months left in the season, the race for the three remaining Champions League spots is tight with six teams competing, with second-placed Monaco and seventh-placed Lyon separated by just five points.

Improving on the 1-1 draw from the first leg will be key for Haise's men, but Nice have failed to win in their last six meetings with Nantes, following a run of four consecutive victories between 2020 and 2022.

However, Nantes have also been struggling with morale in recent weeks, with Antoine Kombouare's side falling back into relegation trouble after a 3-2 defeat to 16th-placed Le Havre last weekend.

Timothee Pembele's 88th-minute winner sealed the game, after Nantes had twice equalised, but the result was a fifth defeat in seven games for the team nicknamed "The Canaries".

Two recent wins against Lens and Lille had made fans believe that Nantes would escape the danger zone, but victories against Le Havre and Reims last weekend dragged them back into the relegation spiral.

Assuming Saint-Etienne were awarded a three-point win in their abandoned match against Montpellier, the five teams from 13th to 17th places would be separated by just four points, with only three teams guaranteed to stay up.

Latest Nice vs Nantes score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Nice vs Nantesas follows:

• Sportsmole:Nice 2-0 Nantes

• WhoScore:Nice 2-1 Nantes
• Our newspaper predicts:Nice 2-1 Nantes

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