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August 3rd, 2008

Nice 3-3 Lille

By: Martha | Comments 3 Comments

WOE.
Team (system taken from the ogcnissa.com forums):
Letizi
Diakité-Hognon-Kanté-Jeunechamp
Echouafni-Faé
Traoré
Hellebuyck-Bamogo
Remy
Main subs, before mass changes in the 75th: Rool for Jeunechamp at half, Ben Saada for Traoré after an hour.
Goals: Traore (7th), Hellebuyck (22nd), Kanté (72nd) for Nice; Balmont (39th), Cabaye (45th), Bastos (62nd) for Lille.
The good news: For the second match in a row, three goals scored! [...]



July 27th, 2008

Nice 3-3 ASSE (Plus Some Transfer Chatter)

By: Martha | Comments 7 Comments

First half:
Letizi
Diakité-Yahia-Kanté-Jeunechamp
Echouafni-Fae-Traoré
Remy-Modeste-Bamogo
Second half:
Ospina
Diakité-Hognon-Cid-Rool
Echouafni (Adu, 82rd)-Fae-Traoré
Bamogo (Quansah, 76th)-Remy-Ben Saada
Goals: Remy (45th pen, 62nd), Bamogo (71st pen) for Nice; Ilan (9th), Gigliotti (19th, 56th pen) for ASSE
(No Hellebuyck because of a slight leg problem; nothing serious but Antonetti didn’t want to risk him.)
It’s too bad there’s so little to be found about this match, because it sounds [...]

July 24th, 2008

Nice 2-1 Grenoble (Plus Some Newsie Bits)

By: Martha | Comments 6 Comments

First Half:
Letizi
Diakité-Hognon-Kanté-Jeunechamp
Echouafni-Fae-Helebuyck
Rémy-Modeste-Bamogo
Second half:
Ospina
Jeunechamp-Yahia-Cid-Rool
Fae-Hellebuyck-Traoré-Ben Saada
Modeste-Rémy
Goals: Modeste (22nd), Rémy (44nd) Nice; Flachez (45è) for Grenoble; video of the goals (in the old kits, still) here.
As usual, it’s hard to find out much about the match — it sounds like Grenoble had arguably the better of play after the first 10 minutes or so, but despite their possession, [...]

July 19th, 2008

Goals in a Friendly — And Against a Professional Team, Too!

By: Martha | Comments 11 Comments

4-0 against Nimes, buckets of great performances — forget the pessimism, Nice are going to win everything! Ahem. Sorry, just wanted to get that uncharacteristic burst of optimism out of my system. On to the details.
First half:
Letizi
Jeunechamp-Hognon-Cid-Diakité
Echouafni-Fae-Hellebuyck
Rémy (Traoré, 35è)-Modeste-Ben Saada
Second half:
Ospina
Faviana-Yahia-Apam-Gace
Coulibaly-Pastor-Traoré-Quansah
Ozokwo-Asamoah
Goals: Remy (3rd), Traore (60th, 80è pen) and Ozokwo (73rd)
Preseason debuts for most of [...]

July 16th, 2008

Counting Down to the Official Bye-Bye Baky Post (+ a Friendly)

By: Martha | Comments 11 Comments

As Magnusson has already reported, things started moving again last night between Nice and OM (what with July 15 being Maurice Cohen’s designated Transfer Witching Hour and all), and it sounds like the Koné deal is all but done. According to widespread press reports, Marseille are now offering most of what Nice demanded right before [...]



July 11th, 2008

Not Quite the Start They Wanted

By: Martha | Comments 7 Comments

We’ll never get too much more information about the match, which is probably for the best, but Nice lost to a UNFP team in Vichy today 5-1. OUCH. Bamogo opened the scoring early, but from that point on it was all UNFP — they led 3-1 at half, and compounded the humiliation by scoring twice [...]




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