Media365 editorial team, published on Friday January 3, 2025 at 8:00 a.m.
Nice hosts Rennes this Friday evening (9 p.m.) for the 16th day of Ligue 1. Here is everything you need to know about this meeting.
For this first Ligue 1 match of the year 2025, we will be entitled to a poster between Nice (6th, 24 points) and Rennes (12th, 17 points). After the winter break, Franck Haise's team will try to win at home, while Jorge Sampaoli's, who can already count on the arrival of Seko Fofana, will want to show another face after a failed first part of the season .
The stats to know (with Opta)
This is the 3rd year in a row that Nice and Rennes have faced each other for their first Ligue 1 match of the year, but the previous 2 took place in Rennes with 2 Breton victories 2-1 in 2023 and 2-0 in 2024. This is the 5th time in a row that the OGCN begins a calendar year against a Breton club after its 2-0 defeat in Brest in 2021 and his victory, still in Brest, 3-0 in 2022.
Nice have won 43 matches against Rennes in Ligue 1 (24 draws, 35 defeats), doing better against any other team (also 43 against Saint-Etienne). The Aiglons have only lost 3 of their last 18 matches against SRFC in the top flight (10 wins, 5 draws).
Nice have scored in each of their last 9 Ligue 1 matches, only Lyon (11) have a longer streak. The OGCN has not had a longer run since February – April 2021 in the elite (10). The Riviera club has also scored and conceded at least one goal in its last 5 L1 matches.
Nice is one of the only two L1 teams not to have lost a single home match this season (4 wins, 3 draws) along with PSG (7 wins, 1 draw).
Rennes have lost their last 3 Ligue 1 away matches without managing to score, and have not had 4 losses in a row without finding the opponent's net away from home since April – August 2016 (4).
Nice is the team which has gleaned the most points after suffering the opening score in Ligue 1 this season alongside Reims (8), and at the same time the 2nd which has let slip the most points after having opened the scoring (9 like Nantes) behind Strasbourg (13).
