Reims v Nice Match Preview, 21/05/2022

Match Facts

1. The four last games between Reims and Nice have ended in a draw, with each of the last three ending 0-0. Reims have only won one of their last 12 Ligue 1 games against Nice (D7 L4), in August 2018 away from home (1-0).
2. Reims have not won any of their last five Ligue 1 home games against Nice (D4 L1). During these five matches, neither side has managed to score more than once in the same game.
3. Reims have won three of their last five Ligue 1 games (L2), as many as their previous 14 (D6 L5).
4. If they enjoy a better result than both Strasbourg and Lens, Nice will finish in the Ligue 1 top 5 for the fourth time in the seven last seasons, as many as in the previous 35.
5. Reims have lost three of their last four Ligue 1 home games (W1), just one defeat fewer than in their first 14 this season (W4 D6).
6. Nice have only won one of their last seven away Ligue 1 games (D2 L4), though it did come last time out in Bordeaux (1-0).
7. Reims (82 – 41 goals for, 41 against) and Nice (83 – 49 for, 34 against) are the two teams whose games have produced the fewest goals in Ligue 1 this season.
8. Alongside Lens, Nice and Reims are two or the three teams yet to concede an own goal in Ligue 1 this season. Indeed, Nice are also one of the two teams (alongside Lorient) yet to benefit from an own goal in the top-flight in 2021/22.
9. Reims’ Marshall Munetsi scored the first goal amongst all players on MD37, which was the 1001st Ligue 1 goal of the season; Indeed, if MD38 ends with 20 or more goals, the 2021/22 season will see more goals than last term (1049), and thus become the most prolific L1 scoring campaign since 1982/83 (1090).
10. Andy Delort’s 15 Ligue 1 goals this season has won his teams t 17 points (1 for Montpellier and 16 for Nice), the highest tally alongside Jonathan David.