Zulte Waregem v Nice background
Zulte Waregem’s home form has been unsatisfactory in their many new European games, though they will demeanour to purify a line-up purify opposite Nice in UEFA Europa League Group K.
Previous meetings
• The teams are assembly for a initial time; it is Zulte Waregem’s initial confront with French opponents and Nice’s initial assembly with a Belgian side.
• Belgian clubs are though a win in their final 7 home games with French visitors in UEFA foe (D4 L3), given Club Brugge kick Toulouse 1-0 in a 2009/10 UEFA Europa League organisation stage.
Form guide
• Zulte Waregem have won usually one of their final 9 European home matches (W1 D2 L9).
• Nice are though a win in 3 UEFA divided games, surrender twice in any of them: 2-0, 2-2, 2-0.
• Zulte Waregem claimed their second Belgian Cup in 2016/17; they done it by a UEFA Cup organisation theatre in 2006/07, though could not obey that success in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League.
• Beaten by Napoli in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, Nice done their UEFA Europa League organisation theatre entrance final deteriorate though unsuccessful to strech a turn of 32.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Nice to Waregem is around 850km.
• Nice’s Vincent Koziello serves a one-match cessation for this game.
• Zulte Waregem’s Congolese defender Marvin Baudry was innate in France and played in a French joining for Amiens (2011–15).
• Forward Aaron Leya Iseka played 8 games in Ligue 1 final term, on loan from Anderlecht to Marseille, while midfielder Nill de Pauw plied his trade with Guingamp from 2015–17.
• Nice defender Arnaud Souquet spent a 2012/13 debate in Belgium, on loan during Mouscron from LOSC Lille.
• Nice’s Brazilian defender Dante played in Belgium with Charleroi (2006–07) and Standard Liège (2007–09).
 The coaches
• Francky Dury’s second entrance as Zulte Waregem manager began in 2012, and he led them to a second Belgian Cup success final season. Zultse and – post-merger – Zulte Waregem trainer from 1994–2010, he assigned a Gent and Belgium Under-21 helms before to his return.
• Former Switzerland midfielder Lucien Favre has been in assign during Nice given May 2016. He done his name as a manager by winning back-to-back Swiss titles with Zürich, and subsequently extended his repute with spells during Hertha Berlin and Mönchengladbach in Germany.