Nice vs Toulouse prediction: FRANCE: Ligue 1 betting tips on match 2025-08-15 19:05.
[p]Two teams who ended last season’s Ligue 1 with strong runs, Nice and Toulouse, will go head-to-head on matchday one of the 2025/26 campaign at the Allianz Riviera.[/p]
[p]Match News and Current Form[/p]
[p]Nice have failed to win each of their last four Ligue 1 season openers (D3, L1), although last season’s 2-1 loss at Auxerre did not prevent them from recording their highest finish since 2016/17 (fourth). That saw Nice go into the qualifiers for the UEFA Champions League, but a 4-0 aggregate defeat to Benfica meant they dropped into the Europa League, a competition in which they finished 35th out of 36 last season without a single win (D3, L5)! They’ll be keen to quickly park that disappointment, and home could be the perfect place to do so given Nice lost only two Ligue 1 games (W11, D4) in front of their own fans last season.[/p]
[p]A late flurry of results saw Toulouse end last season tenth in Ligue 1 – their highest finish since 2013/14. This will be their third season under the management of Spaniard Carles MartĂnez Novell, who has pushed his side to a higher finish in each campaign, so a top-half finish will undoubtedly be their primary goal this term. Their quest to do so could get off to a solid start if Novell’s opening-day record in charge of Toulouse is anything to go by as he is unbeaten in two such clashes (W1, D1), and in total les Violets are on a four-game unbeaten run to start a new Ligue 1 season (W1, D3).[/p]
[p]Head-to-Head History[/p]
[p]Four of the last six H2Hs ended level including 1-1 draws in both games last season. At the Allianz Riviera, Nice are unbeaten across the last five H2Hs (W2, D3).[/p]
[p]Hot Stats and Streaks[/p]
[p]Nice scored the most first-half goals (38) of all teams last Ligue 1 season.[/p]
[p]Only Marseille (94%) were involved in more Ligue 1 games with 2+ total goals than Nice (91%) last season.[/p]
[p]Toulouse opened the scoring in each of their last three games of the 2024/25 campaign.[/p]
[p]Toulouse kept just two clean sheets across their final 16 Ligue 1 games last season.[/p]
[p]Key Players to Watch and Missing Players[/p]
[p]Badredine Bouanani ended last season with four goal contributions (G1, A3) across Nice’s final five games – he’s faced Toulouse more often than any other side in his career without ever winning (D3, L1). Yann Gboho was also in fine form during May, scoring three times and providing an assist while also laying on the Toulouse goal in last August’s H2H in Nice.[/p]
[p]There are injuries for Nice’s Youssouf Ndayishimiye and Tanguy Ndombele while Toulouse will not have Niklas Schmidt or Rasmus Nicolaisen available due to injury.[/p]
[p]Betting Analysis[/p]
[p]Nice scored exactly once in each of the last four H2Hs and Toulouse rarely kept clean sheets last season so we recommend backing Nice to score exactly one goal in this fixture.[/p]
[p][i]Author: Tom Penn[/i][/p]