📊 Form Guide

Rennes

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Rennes will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 2-1 Ligue 1 defeat last time out to Toulouse.

In that game, Rennes had 62% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Rennes was Arnaud Kalimuendo (65'). At the other end, Toulouse had 9 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Yann Gboho (28') and Aron Dønnum (82') scored for Toulouse.

Fixtures involving Rennes have usually been absorbing ones lately with high scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past half dozen clashes, the sum total of 21 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 12 of those being chalked up by Rennes. That sort of trend isn’t assured to follow through into this match, however.

Nice

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Nice head into the meeting after a 1-0 Ligue 1 win to defeat Reims in their previous fixture.

In that match, Nice managed 55% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Nice was Morgan Sanson (15'). Reims got 16 attempts at goal with 3 on target.

In their last half-dozen outings, Nice have amassed the sum of 10 goals. Nice have additionally got on the scoresheet on each one of those occasions. During that period, their defenders have seen 8 goals scored by their opponents.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Nice:

• have not registered a win against Rennes when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head to head clashes dating back to 02/04/2022 shows us that Rennes have won 2 of them & Nice 3, with the number of drawn games being 1.

In all, 17 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 from Rennes and 9 created by Les Aiglons. The average goals per game has been 2.83.

The previous league game between the two was Ligue 1 match day 16 on 03/01/2025 when it ended Nice 3-2 Rennes.

On that day, Nice had 46% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The scorers were Evann Guessand (12'), Sofiane Diop (34') and Gaëtan Laborde (45').

Rennes got 10 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Arnaud Kalimuendo (27') and Adrien Truffert (49') scored.

The referee was Jérôme Brisard.

🗞️ Team News: Rennes

Jérémy Jacquet (Calf injury) and Alidu Seidu (Cruciate ligament tear) are unavailable for Rennes manager Habib Beye.

It’s our opinion that Rennes will possibly use the 3-2-4-1 system for this one, beginning the first half with Yehvann Diouf, Cedric Kipre, Joseph Okumu, Mory Gbane, Aurelio Buta, Sergio Akieme, Ange Martial Tia, V. Atangana Edoa, Amadou Kone, Keito Nakamura and Jordan Pefok.

📋 Team News: Nice

Nice manager Franck Haise has multiple availability issues to deal with. Youssouf Ndayishimiye (Cruciate ligament injury), Tanguy Ndombélé (Pelvic injury) and Mohamed Abdelmonem (Cruciate ligament tear) are not able to play.

We believe Les Aiglons seem most likely to utilise a 4-3-3 system, settling for Gautier Larsonneur, Dennis Appiah, Maxime Bernauer, Mickael Nade, Leo Petrot, Aimen Moueffek, Pierre Ekwah, Florian Tardieu, Irvin Cardona, Djylian N'Guessan and Zuriko Davitashvili.

⚡ Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Rennes will need to put in a solid display to score against this Nice outfit who will likely do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore tipping a very even match with a 0-1 winning score for Nice at the end of this one.

Let’s see.

Renata Leite, 18:07 10/05/2025