Two draws in two games for OGC Nice… What’s the problem?

2023-08-22 08:23:00

Frustrating, confusing, infuriating, even disappointing. Perhaps Farioli’s Gym is a bit of all of this at the same time with two points taken in two days. Should we rather think that it never wins or that it never loses? The content shows above all that this red and black collective is not as bad as its results. The young 34-year-old Italian technician is ambitious, advocates an attacking game, calls for aggressiveness and personality. We saw it well in Lorient. If so, the statistics bear this out.

In the top 5 of Ligue 1 in the number of assists

Losc, thanks to more than a year of collaboration with Paulo Fonseca, had confiscated the ball for the first time at the Allianz (60% possession). Nice imposed the same tariff on the Hakes of Le Bris. With control in the opposing camp (85.6% successful passes) and facing a 5-4-1 low block that was always difficult to move, the Gym obtained numerous crosses (22) to frame a just over a third of his shots attempted (8 out of 21).

Now in the top 5 of Ligue 1 in the number of transmissions (1,056), the Aiglons increasingly embody the playing ambitions of Francesco Farioli. The seven saves made by Mvogo, including five in the second half alone, refute the idea of ​​sterile possession, but conversely reinforce the observation that offensive efficiency remains clearly perfectible.

Sanson and Thuram assert themselves in the middle three

He doesn’t have more than 75 minutes in his legs yet. But Morgan Sanson blended into the Nice collective as if he had always been there. The state of mind is exemplary, his high pressing is effective and his technical touch does not spoil anything. As if relieved to have such a duo, Thuram regains momentum in his percussion and should have even unlocked his stats counter at Moustoir with more conviction in the last gesture.

Youssouf fills all the spaces without the ball, protects his central hinge. But the Burundian does not have the technical ease of Boudaoui, who has been on the bench for two games. Untouchable sentinel of the Digard system, and rightly so, the Algerian is considered more of an 8 in the mind of Francesco Farioli. Or a six in a system with two defensive midfielders. But in the current 4-3-3, Boudaoui does not have the faculty of Youssouf to play the third central in the recovery phase and therefore not the favors of his coach consequently in the eleven. And it is not his timid entry into Lorient that will push Farioli to review his judgment …

Bard and Guessand beef up the competition

Recruiting a left-back was Florent Ghisolfi’s priority this summer. Lucas Digne (see box) should be the chosen one announced this week, but Melvin Bard did not wait for his competitor to show more determination and application in his Nice adventure. His preparation meetings and his first once morest Lille were encouraging, his performance in Lorient was clearly successful with interceptions, application in the crosses and a key pass for Thuram at six meters. In the offensive sector, Evann Guessand also intensified the competition with his first two performances of the season, on the right once morest Lille, in the axis more recently.

Farioli less inspired in his changes

Author of a triple change which had divided once morest Lille, Farioli preferred to temporize in Lorient. It is understandable for the majority of an eleven who was well settled in his match, a little less concerning Sofiane Diop, once more disappointing for 75 minutes in Brittany following a failed entry on the first day. The Gym coach waited for the equalizer to launch Bouanani, a poison for the Hakes. Not used once morest Lille, his former club, the 18-year-old right winger brought the dribbling and the ball percussion to the foot which the Gym lacked to definitively break Lorient, a team on the back foot despite the transition to four behind.

Offensive in his ideas of play, the Transalpin is much less so in his replacements during the match. As a result, his team was twice caught up in the score. This is perhaps the main change to be made.

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