📏 Form Guide

Nice

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Nice go into this fixture after a 2-2 Ligue 1 tied result vs Brest.

In that game, Nice managed 60% possession and 15 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For Nice, the scorers were Ali Abdi (63') and Elye Wahi (71'). Brest had 12 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Romain Del Castillo (15') and Kamory Doumbia (23') scored for Brest.

It has not been often in recent times that Nice haven’t conceded. In fact, Nice have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 10 goals in the process. Previous results aside, we will just have to wait and see whether that trend shall be sustained in this upcoming match or not.

Montpellier

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Montpellier head into the meeting following on from a 3-1 Ligue 2 win to beat EA Guingamp in their most recent fixture.

For Montpellier, goals were scored by Everson (42') and Alexandre Mendy (45', 79'). Louis Mafouta (18') scored for EA Guingamp.

Throughout their six most recent matches, Zoumana Camara's Montpellier have had reason to celebrate scoring 11 times - yielding them the goals per game average of 1.83.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 27/05/2023 tells us that Nice have won 3 of these and Montpellier 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 2.

19 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 12 of them for Les Aiglons and 7 belonging to La Paillade. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The previous league encounter between the two was Ligue 1 match day 23 on 23/02/2025 which ended up with the score at Nice 2-0 Montpellier.

In that game, Nice managed 57% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The goalscorers were Jonathan Clauss (30') and Hicham Boudaoui (65').

For their opponents, Montpellier had 13 shots on goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Willy Delajod.

⚡ Prediction

We’re of the view that Montpellier are likely to find the net against this Nice team, although it may not be enough to avoid defeat.

We reckon that it will be a 2-1 win for Nice at full-time.

Peter Guest, 01:01 04/02/2026