Paris (AFP)
Nice defeated its guest Paris Saint-Germain with a “knockout”, when Algerian international Andy Delors scored his only goal two minutes before the end of the match, in the twenty-seventh stage of the French Football Championship.
Nice hit two birds with one stone, because it climbed to second place temporarily with 49 points, two points ahead of third Marseille, but it is still 14 points behind the leaders in the capital, and Nice also boosted its chances of qualifying directly to the Champions League next season, for the first time. in its history.
Saint-Germain was Yemeni in revenge against Nice, who knocked him out of the French Cup by winning on penalties on January 31 at the Parc des Princes, but he fell in front of him again.
It seems that Nice coach Christophe Galtier became a specialist in defeating Saint-Germain, because he was at the head of the technical staff of the Lille club last season, when he led him to pull the rug from under Saint-Germain and win the title before moving to coach Nice early this season.
The confrontation was the last experience of Saint Germain before facing Real Madrid in the second leg of the Champions League final price at the Santibago Bernabeu stadium, knowing that the French capital team won the first leg with a late goal for its top scorer Kylian Mbappe.
In the absence of Mbappe, due to the suspension of the match against Nice, the Argentine coach, Maurizio Pochettino, the Saint-Germain coach, participated in the attacking trio of his compatriots Lionel Messi and Angel Di Maria, in addition to the Brazilian Neymar.
Paradoxically, no French player participated in the ranks of Saint-Germain against Nice, and this is what is happening for the fourth time in its history in the local league, the last of which was against Lyon on September 22, 2019.
Before his fall, Saint-Germain had only lost one of its last 18 matches against Nice, winning 14 and drawing three times.