OGC Nice 5-2 Stade Rennais FC 1901: Ligue 1 Match Report, 30 October 2026

Rennes came to Nice second in the table and conceded five: OGC Nice 5-2 Stade Rennais FC 1901. Nice were 3-1 up at half-time and took the second half 2-1 as well, so this was not a lead defended but a game won in both halves.

Little in the table pointed to it. Nice had 11 points from eight games, tenth place and a goal difference of minus two, with eight goals scored and never more than two in a match. Rennes were second on 16, plus four, with 18 scored. They had also conceded 14, though, and where they had conceded them matters. At home they had won four and drawn one; away they had lost 4-0 at Lyon and 4-3 at Paris FC, with a 2-1 at Angers their only win.

Nice, meanwhile, had been hard to beat at home, with two wins and two draws from four, and they came in off a 2-1 win at Brest a week earlier, their first away win of the season. Five goals in one evening, after eight in their first eight games, is the outlier in their season so far, and beyond the half-time score nothing on record breaks it down.

The fixture has swung before. Nice won 3-2 at home in January 2025 from a 3-1 half-time lead, the same split as here, and Rennes won the last meeting in Nice 4-0 in March 2026.

Nice go to 14 points from nine games, and the five goals turn their goal difference from minus two to plus one, positive for the first time this season. Rennes stay on 16, now from nine, and slip from plus four to plus one. Tenth before kick-off, Nice are now two points behind a side that started the night second.

Against last season, the change is clearest for Nice. They finished 16th on 32 points with a goal difference of minus 23, and 14 points is already 44 per cent of that total with 25 rounds still to go. At home they are now on three wins and two draws from five. Rennes, sixth on 59 last term, are on almost exactly the same rate as then: 59 from 34 is 1.74 a game, 16 from nine is 1.78.

There is no pick on this page because none was made: the match was played on the Friday night that began the last weekend of October, a weekend in which the site published nothing.

Away from home is where Rennes' season keeps going wrong. Three away defeats now, and they have conceded at least four in each: 4-0 at Lyon, 4-3 at Paris FC and 5-2 here. At home they have dropped two points all season. Nine games is too few to call that a pattern with much confidence, but it is the most consistent thing about them so far.