Albert
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1d
My Prediction
Nice by 1Hold onto your berets, folks, we're putting up Stade Rennais against Nice. In the land of wine and cheese, who's going to come out on top? No rash decisions, here, we're playing it like chess, not checkers.
In the goalkeeping deparment, we've got Marcin Bułka for Nice, keeping his patch of grass pretty clean with an impressive 7.80 rating and 18 saves. Stade Rennais have Brice Samba between the sticks, who is, let's be honest, having a bit of a tough go at it with a 6.54 rating and 7 saves.
Nice brings Jonathan Clauss, Morgan Sanson, and Melvin Bard to the table. Clauss' is throwing around passes like confetti with a smokin' 77.8% pass accuracy while Sanson and Bard are scoring like their mothers promised them a pony. Seriously, three goals each, shots on goal, and wouldn't you know, pass accuracy that puts seasoned darts players to shame.
For Stade Rennais, we have Adrien Truffert, Arnaud Kalimuendo, and Lilian Brassier providing the main attraction. Truffert's whispers to the ball must be sweet, 93.6% of his passes find a friend. Kalimuendo clearly has it in for the net with 2 goals and Brassier is solid, keeping everything ticking over smoothly in the field. Not bad, boys, not bad.
Historically, Nice definitely bathes in the glow of victory more often in these encounters. The books also favor Nice in recent head-to-head encounters, taking the ring 3 times out of 5. Last time around, Nice was singing in the shower, leaving Stade Rennais to mumbling in the rain with a 3-2 victory.
Stade Rennais, undoubtedly the underdog in this dogfight, holds a regular-season record of 12 wins, 2 draws, and a crushing 18 losses. Nice, dipping their cookies in the sweet milk of success more often, powers through with 16 wins, 9 draws, and 7 losses.
Recent results have seen Nice saunter through with a 3 win, 1 loss, and 1 draw record, including an unexpected trouncing of Paris Saint-Germain. But let's talk turkey: Stade Rennais has been a bit of a romantic melodrama, ripping apart their shirt, yelling at the moon with 1 win and a stream of loss after loss.
After crunching all these numbers, no bones about it, it seems like Nice has got the foot firmly planted on the gas pedal in this one.
Albert’s Prediction: Nice by 1
Albert
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