Their crossing failed to break down Nantes’ defence during this fixture, however, they also created little from alternative methods in attack and this may be one reason as to why they failed to capitalise on their numerical advantage throughout the second half. However, Coco did well, here, to hold onto the ball and wait for the right-back to offer support, which he eventually does and as the winger lays the ball back to him, he enjoys the ability to float a cross into the box from deep unmarked – showing the benefit of this tactics, if the winger is unable to get a cross of his own off, for one reason or another.

Nîmes’ right-back always pressed Nantes’ left-sided wide man aggressively when he received possession of the ball. Nîmes’ near-side central midfielder, who we can see in the process of running outward from the centre circle here, managed to intercept this pass and prevents Nantes from playing through their defensive shape. Bundesliga 2019/20: Nurnberg vs Ingolstadt – tactical analysis.

Nantes managed to get themselves a two-goal cushion in the first half of this contest and despite the home side eventually going down to nine men after Imran Louza was sent off in the 47th minute and ex-Man United right-back Fábio da Silva received a second yellow card in the 87th minute of the game, Nîmes could only manage to score one goal and Nantes ultimately came away from this tie with all three points. In attack, Nantes started this game with Ludovic Blas, who acted as somewhat of a number ‘10’ at times, occasionally operating slightly more withdrawn than his strike partner, and the final member of this Nantes starting XI, Randal Kolo. Live score on SofaScore.com livescore is automatically updated and you don't need to refresh it manually. Here, the holding midfielder can be seen spraying a cross-field ball from the middle of the park out to an overlapping full-back on the other side of the pitch, who is just out-of-shot here.

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Christian Gourcuff devrait miser sur un 4-4-2. The image above provides us with one such occasion on which Nantes attempted to play out from the back, through the centre of the park and here, we can see that there was, in the end, too much cover from Nîmes in this area for Nantes’ intended ball receiver to actually receive possession. (L. Argueyrolles/L'Équipe), Gabriel Jesus absent un mois, selon Guardiola, Boulaya : «C'est sûr que c'est frustrant», Mandanda : «On ne peut pas se satisfaire de ça», Les 2 passes décisives de Ribéry en vidéo, Sanson : « Je ne sais pas ce qu'on fait ». The image above provides us with an example of how Nîmes acted without possession of the ball in this game. Andrés Cubas, who recently joined Nîmes from Argentinian side CA Talleres, and Lucas Deaux started in a double-pivot at the base of midfield for the away side, while the trio of right-winger Zinedine Ferhat, left-winger Romain Philippoteaux and central attacking midfielder Yassine Benrahou played just behind Nîmes’ centre forward for this contest, 19-year-old Kévin Denkey. Innenverteidiger, Vertrag bis: His jersey number is 4.Nicolas Pallois statistics and career statistics, live SofaScore ratings, Heatmap and goal video highlights may be available on SofaScore for some of Nicolas Pallois and FC Nantes matches. We can see that the holding midfielders were typically situated between Nantes’ first and second line of defence. We can see an example of one such occasion when this occurred in the image above.

They would try to send the ball from the centre-back out to the full-back, who would then draw the opposition wide man’s press and he would subsequently play the ball inside to the near-side holding midfielder. Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling.

Frankreich, Position: This statistic measures pressing intensity and the lower the number, the more intense that team’s press was, so, it isn’t very surprising that Nîmes had a far lower PPDA than Nantes in this game, considering that we’ve already established that they dominated the possession in this fixture. Firstly, the home side started this contest in a 4-4-2 shape.