Nice lost Thursday for the second time in three Europa League games in Prague against Slavia, 3-2, and are in a delicate position ahead of the second leg.
For its part, Lille achieved a feat by beating AC Milan on home soil 3-0.
Good and bad news for the French clubs competing this Thursday evening in the Europa League.
Nice lost Thursday for the second time in three Europa League games in Prague against Slavia, 3-2, and are in a delicate position ahead of the second leg.
For its part, Lille beat AC Milan on home soil 3-0.
"We have a questioning to do"
Led from the 16th minute, the Nice equalized by Gouiri (33rd), but the Praguois took off thanks to two new goals before the break (43rd) and at the end of the match (71st).
The reduction of the score by Ndoye (90 + 3) was far too late.
"We have to question ourselves. We can miss passes, strikes, but when there are duels we need more desire," commented after the defeat Morgan Schneiderlin, midfielder from Nice.
The Lille exploit at San Siro
3-0 at San Siro!
Lille, with the manner and a hat-trick from Yazici, brought down AC Milan in their den on Thursday during the third day of the Europa League, ending 24 unbeaten matches for Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Rossoneri.
This looks like a good habit for Lille which, with this well-deserved feat, signs the second victory in its history on the ground of AC Milan, after that of Claude Puel's team in 2006 in the Champions League.
Le Losc stretches its own unbeaten streak to twelve matches this season and above all takes the lead of Group H of C3 with one point ahead of the Milanese.
A perfect blow against the leader of Serie A after the points abandoned against Celtic at home (2-2) a week ago.
All Lille, up to goalkeeper Mike Maignan, decisive on the rare Lombard occasions, responded to the call launched Wednesday by Christophe Galtier: the coach had warned that it would take "a very big match" to bring something back from Milan.
But it is Yusuf Yazici the man of the evening with his three goals against Gianluigi Donnarumma, two weeks after a first hat-trick against Sparta Prague!
A penalty obtained and transformed by him (22nd), a powerful strike at the start of the second half (55th) and another in finesse at the end of a beautiful collective movement (58th).
And he was not far to put a fourth ...