Vitesse v Nice background
All of a gift issues are resolved in Group K, though carrying unsuccessful to win any of their opening 5 matches, separated Vitesse will be fervent to pointer off their debate with a long-awaited European victory.
• Nice are by to a turn of 32 as organisation runners-up, behind Lazio, and will be personification European football in a open for a initial time given 1960.
Previous meetings
• Nice came out on tip on matchday dual when a sides met for a initial time in UEFA competition, winning 3-0 with dual goals from Alassane Pléa and one from Allan Saint-Maximin.
• Vitesse have nonetheless to win in 5 UEFA encounters with French clubs: D1 L4 (D1 L1 in Arnhem).
• Nice drew their usually prior games opposite Dutch opposition, 1-1 (home) and 2-2 (away) opposite Ajax in this season’s UEFA Champions League third subordinate round – adequate to acquire them an away-goals success.
Form guide
• Vitesse have mislaid their final 5 home matches in Europe, scoring 3 goals and surrender 11. They are winless in 11 UEFA fixtures, home and away, given a 3-1 feat during home to Lokomotiv Plovdiv in a second subordinate turn of a 2012/13 UEFA Europa League.
• Nice posted their biggest European divided win on matchday one – 5-1 during Zulte Waregem – though that is their usually feat in their past 5 games outward France (D1 L3). The 5 goals they scored in Belgium matched a sum they had purebred in a whole of final season’s organisation stage.
• Vitesse are featuring in a organisation theatre of a UEFA foe for a initial time – a prerogative for carrying won a 2016/17 Dutch Cup, their lass vital trophy.
• Beaten by Napoli in this season’s UEFA Champions League play-offs, Nice done their UEFA Europa League organisation theatre entrance in 2016/17 though unsuccessful to strech a turn of 32.
• Nice have already played 9 UEFA matches this season, creation it their longest ever European campaign.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Nice to Arnhem is around 900km.
• Nice’s ex-Ajax schemer and Dutch general Wesley Sneijder final faced Vitesse with a Amsterdam bar in an Eredivisie diversion in Dec 2006, his side losing 4-2. Ajax had won all 7 of a prior matches he was concerned in opposite Vitesse, with Sneijder scoring twice in a process.
• Nice defender Dante has finished some-more passes than any other actor in a foe after 5 matchdays – 464. His team-mate Maxime Le Marchand is second on a list with 404.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Mario Balotelli (Nice).
The coaches
• Vitesse manager given 2016, heading them to their ancestral Dutch Cup delight final season, Surinam-born Henk Fraser was capped 7 times by a Netherlands as a defender, spending a bulk of his personification career during Feyenoord, where he was after a girl coach. He took his initial comparison pursuit during Den Haag from 2014 to 2016.
• Former Switzerland midfielder Lucien Favre has been in assign during Nice given May 2016. He done his name as a manager by capturing back-to-back Swiss titles with Zürich, and subsequently extended his repute with spells in Germany during Hertha Berlin and Borussia Mönchengladbach.