Nice 3–2 Olympique Lyonnais
- Bard 5'
- Diop 35'
- Boudaoui 55'
- Sulc 29'
- Sulc 90+5'
18 October 2025
The match in data
Nice beat Olympique Lyonnais 3–2 on 18 October 2025, on matchday 8 of the 2025-26 Ligue 1.
Player of the match: Clinton Mata (Olympique Lyonnais), rated 69, thanks above all to 12 final-third passes and 87 passes. Mata produced 1.2 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.3 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
For Nice, the highest-rated player was Sofiane Diop, with 68.
Pavel Sulc scored twice.
Ainsley Maitland-Niles missed a penalty at 53'.
Clinton Mata
Olympique Lyonnais · 77'
Produced 1.25× and cost 0.30× their position's average
- 12 final-third passes 2.5×
- 87 passes 2.0×
- 8 recoveries 2.3×
- 5 misplaced passes 0.9×
- 1 duel lost 0.3×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: anyone who played under 20 minutes, and a goalkeeper who did not play the whole match.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sofiane Diop | Forward | 73 | 68 |
| Antoine Mendy | Defender | 90 | 63 |
| Yehvann Diouf | Goalkeeper | 90 | 60 |
| Melvin Bard | Defender | 90 | 57 |
| Jérémie Boga | Forward | 73 | 48 |
| Kojo Peprah Oppong | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Dante | Defender | 66 | 44 |
| Hicham Boudaoui | Midfielder | 90 | 42 |
| Charles Vanhoutte | Midfielder | 90 | 40 |
| Juma Bah | Defender | 24 | 35 |
| Jonathan Clauss | Defender | 90 | 28 |
| Mohamed-Ali Cho | Forward | 73 | 20 |
| Morgan Sanson | Midfielder | 17 | no rating |
| Tiago Gouveia | Forward | 17 | no rating |
| Tom Louchet | Midfielder | 17 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton Mata ★ | Defender | 77 | 69 |
| Nicolás Tagliafico | Defender | 22 | 68 |
| Rachid Ghezza | Forward | 22 | 66 |
| Ruben Kluivert | Defender | 90 | 57 |
| Ainsley Maitland-Niles | Defender | 90 | 56 |
| Pavel Sulc | Midfielder | 90 | 55 |
| Tyler Morton | Midfielder | 77 | 53 |
| Malick Fofana | Forward | 77 | 47 |
| Adam Karabec | Midfielder | 68 | 39 |
| Corentin Tolisso | Midfielder | 90 | 37 |
| Abner | Defender | 68 | 35 |
| Martín Satriano | Forward | 90 | 33 |
| Dominik Greif | Goalkeeper | 90 | 31 |
| Afonso Moreira | Forward | 13 | no rating |
| Moussa Niakhaté | Defender | 13 | no rating |
| Tanner Tessmann | Midfielder | 13 | no rating |
Did you know?
La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.
A 2025-26 Ligue 1 match. With these numbers, how did it end?
Nice 3–2 Olympique Lyonnais. The side that created more danger did not win.
Olympique Lyonnais generated 3.69 xG across 29 shots but fell 3–2. Nice needed only 5 attempts and 1.26 xG to take all three points.
Which Nice player played the most passes leading to a shot?
Jonathan Clauss, with 3 key passes. Next: Jérémie Boga 1, Sofiane Diop 1.
Jonathan Clauss stood out in Nice's attack with 3 key passes during the 3–2 win over Olympique Lyonnais. Clauss comfortably outpaced Jérémie Boga and Sofiane Diop, who provided 1 key pass each.
Which Olympique Lyonnais player won the most aerial duels?
Ruben Kluivert, with 5 aerial duels won. Next: Corentin Tolisso 2, Pavel Sulc 2.
Despite the 3–2 defeat against Nice, Ruben Kluivert dominated in the air with 5 aerial duels won for Olympique Lyonnais. Kluivert more than doubled the output of Corentin Tolisso and Pavel Sulc, who had 2 each.
How is the rating calculated?
The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.
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