Ligue 1: "The future will tell us if it's a halt" ... how Nice let his chance pass

In a race for the Champions League more open than ever, the Niçois had the opportunity to send a message to France on Sunday against Montpellier, asserting themselves as serious candidates for the podium, in the same way as Lyon or Marseille. . But in an Allianz Riviera which was finally recovering its Ultras, the Aiglons fell from their nest and failed to seize their chance. Very uninspired, clumsy in front of the opposing goal (22 shots attempted, 6 on target), the OGCN was punished by Florent Mollet, who scored his fourth goal of the season, and by a Jonas Omlin of the great evenings, author of six stops.

Obviously, after this rough match, Nice can have regrets: the club lost for the first time this season at home and left its second place to RC Lens.

“There is disappointment, we came across a very large defensive organization from Montpellier.

In the first half, it was sluggish, we let ourselves fall asleep.

We stayed in an area where we had possession (69%), but it was sterile possession, ”explained Christophe Galtier.

Before mentioning the lack of precision of his team: “There were 34 crosses in the match, with corners included, but we were too vague.

We lacked technical relations and spontaneity in attack.

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Dante alone to greet the supporters

After the match, the Gym technician did not mince words. For him, this performance is a failure, and can have consequences for the future: “These are always turning or pivotal matches. We know that we are going to have a difficult calendar and it would have been the right time to win and to position ourselves high enough in the standings. The future will tell us if it's a halt but, in Clermont

, we will have to be efficient. In other words, the former coach of Lille already has the match against PSG, scheduled for December 1 (9 pm), in sight.

Obviously, some Nice people must have been frustrated after the final whistle;

This is evidenced by a particularly comical scene.

Alone on the lawn with Melvin Bard and Walter Benitez, Dante asked his teammates, returned to the locker room too early, to return to the lawn.

Stunned, the captain of OGC Nice managed to convince the deserters to join him on the pitch to greet the supporters.

"We want them to be with us in defeat as in victory, we must do the same too," said the central defender at the microphone of Canal +.

The message got through.