Ligue 1, 2nd day – The correction: Nice walks against LOSC (0-4) at Pierre-Mauroy for the return of Galtier – Eurosport.fr

Lille supporters did not expect that. For their big comeback to Pierre-Mauroy, Les Dogues fans saw their former coach playing a very bad trick on them. Under the leadership of Christophe Galtier, Nice has largely won against the outgoing French champion (0-4). Dolberg (1st, 64th), Boudaoui (6th) and Gouiri (45th + 4, sp) took part in the party. The Aiglons strike a big blow to start their season. Opposite, Lille was not reassured and will quickly have to raise the bar …

That it seems far, this time when the LOSC relied on the best defense of the Hexagon (23 goals conceded) to conquer a deserved title of champion. Three months later, Lille are already adrift: 7 goals conceded in two games, and only one point on the clock.

Gouiri and Dolberg feasted

More than the balance sheet, still anecdotal at this stage of the season, it was the northerners’ attitudes that worried Pierre-Mauroy. The start of the match was enough to sum them up: it took only 57 seconds for Kasper Dolberg to open the scoring, at the end of an action where the Niçois shot three times against a street defense (0- 1, 1e). Five minutes later, Celik lost a harmless ball in front of his surface, leaving Boudaoui to place a nice shot twenty meters from the goal (0-2, 6th).

This delay in ignition inevitably hurt the Mastiffs, who never knew how to recover. Territorial dominators, Jocelyn Gourvennec’s players had the ball in the first half (70%) without really knowing what to do with a very well organized Nice block. Only Yilmaz put Benitez in danger. Worse, the Lille returned to the locker room with a handicap of three goals. Taking advantage of the opposing defensive largesse, Dolberg placed a header on poor Jardim’s bar.

Countered by the hand of Bnejamin André on the following action, the Dane obtained a penalty converted by Gouiri (0-3, 45th + 4). The chalice to the dregs for the LOSC? Not yet, since on a corner, the same Dolberg found himself free of any marking to anticipate the exit of Jardim and worsen the score (0-4, 64th). And again, the VAR refused a new goal from Gouiri (70th) …

The defense of LOSC outdated

By sinking so early in the season, Lille have shown glaring limits that will have to be erased at all costs. The Yazici-André association did not work in the midfield, the Turk having shown deficiencies in an almost unprecedented position for him. More worrying still, the hinge Fonte-Botman, intractable last year, was submerged by the opposing assaults. The Lille defense suffered from the comparison with the Todibo-Dante axis, imperial on the Nice side. One of the (many) satisfactions of the Gym, which played its luck.

Already well oiled, the Riviera collective did not give the impression of discovering itself (four recruits were holders). With this passage in 4-4-2 so dear to “Galette”, the Gouiri-Dolberg association promises and could well wreak havoc this season in Ligue 1. If Lille has been humiliated at home, the result is primarily due to Nice performance from Nice, able to round back and place dazzling counter-attacks.This result is promising for the rest of the OGCN season, as a shock against OM looms next Sunday .