Toulouse vs Nice Predictions

Back both teams to get on the scoresheet when Toulouse host Nice in Ligue 1 on Saturday. Toulouse won 1-0 last time these two met but both sides have scored in four of the last six head-to-heads, and in 11 of Nice’s 17 league matches this season.

Toulouse are sixth places above Nice in the table, with just five points separating the two sides. The hosts are eighth with six wins, five draws and six losses, while the visitors are in 14th place, having won five, drawn three and lost nine.

Toulouse are unbeaten in six of the last seven Ligue 1 meetings with Nice, but their recent form has been inconsistent, with two wins, two draws and two defeats in their last six games. Nice have gone seven Ligue 1 games without winning and have sustained seven reverses in their last nine away games.

Both teams are struggling defensively, which points to goals in this game. Nice have failed to keep a clean sheet in 16 of their last 19 Ligue 1 games and Toulouse have failed to keep a clean sheet in nine of their last 11 league games against Nice. Only two other teams have shipped more goals in Ligue 1 this season than the 30 that Nice have conceded.

Toulouse won 1-0 last time these two met in Ligue 1, but the two games between Nice and Toulouse last season both saw goals for both sides. Seven of the last nine times that Toulouse have hosted Nice in Ligue 1 have seen both sides scoring.

It could be hard to separate these two sides, with the 1-1 draw looking a decent correct-score bet. No team has played more games in Ligue 1 this season in which both teams have found the net than Nice (11 of 17 matches), and ten of the last 12 meetings between this pair have stayed under 2.5 goals.

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Edited by Mark Langdon