Confirmed in his duties in November, Lucien Favre is no longer the coach of OGC Nice.
According to our information, the leaders of the Gym decided to dismiss their coach, this Monday, after the inglorious elimination of the Riviera team in the 32nd finals of the Coupe de France, Saturday evening, against Le Puy (1-0) , 16th National.
This second defeat in a row, after that suffered in the league in Rennes, on January 2 (2-1), was ultimately one too many for the technician.
Didier Digard, one of his assistants and former coach of the reserve team (N3), is approached to take over the interim.
Lucien Favre pays disappointing results since his return to replace Christophe Galtier.
In addition to the elimination in the Coupe de France, the Aiglons only point to 11th place in Ligue 1 after 17 days.
The Swiss coach no longer seemed to have the necessary levers to straighten the slope while internally certain profiles have already been surveyed for next season.
Already, in September, the Nice board had seriously considered parting with it.
Among the coaches surveyed at the time was former Parisian Mauricio Pochettino.
This information comes a few hours after the layoff of Julien Stéphan by RC Strasbourg.
This brings to nine the number of coaches dismissed in L1 since the start of this season, which will see four clubs relegated to Ligue 2 at the end of the exercise.