In six L1 matches, Digard now has 16 points out of 18 possible with Nice.
Above all, the young 36-year-old coach has revived a club that has always qualified for the European Cup in the Europa League Conference and is now looking to the top of the rankings with relish.
The Aiglons, 37 points, who will host Reims next Saturday for the 24th day, will calmly watch the end of this 23rd day with the feeling of accomplishment.
Ajaccio, for its part, remains relegated (18th).
The Corsicans, who came to defend, were never able to put their strategy in place.
Blame it on Dante.
From the 3rd minute, the Nice captain put his team in the right direction, thanks to a nice volley from the left on the first corner of the game (1-0).
With this goal, his first in L1 since October 3, 2020 and his seventh with Nice, the Brazilian even became, at 39 years and 115 days, the oldest Nice to have scored in the elite.
He thus erases from the shelves the Roquebrunois Olivier Echouafni, today coach of Quevilly-Rouen in L2.
This will remain as the only event of a first period controlled by a Nice who seemed borrowed.
We had to wait for the entries of Youssouf Ndayishimiye, Sofiane Diop and especially Billal Brahimi (66th) to see the Gym bend the match.
Less than five minutes after their entries, Diop gave Brahimi who, from the left, found Benjamin Leroy's skylight (2-0, 69th).
Then, at the very end of the match, the Algerian international scored twice with a master shot from more than 25 meters (3-0, 90th).
After two convincing productions in Lens (1-0) and Marseille (3-1), Nice and Digard have therefore not weakened for their return to the Allianz Riviera.
They masterfully chained a fourth consecutive success in L1.
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