OGC Nice’s Mohamed Ali-Cho to miss start of season | OneFootball

OGC Nice’s 2024/25 campaign ended in qualification for the preliminary rounds of the UEFA Champions League, however, it wasn’t a season without significant challenges. An injury crisis gripped the club and only began to abate at the end of the campaign. The next season will start in the same vein.

Nice will face SL Benfica in the third round of Champions League qualifying on 6th August, however, they will do so without a number of first-team players, Franck Haise has confirmed. Mohamed Ali-Cho will miss the start of the season, Haise told L’Équipe. Sofiane Diop and Moïse Bombito will also miss the start of the campaign. The former underwent surgery on a sports hernia injury at the end of June.

Nice will also be without Youssouf Ndayishimiye and Mohamed Abdelmonem, both of whom suffered ACLs towards the end of the season, and Tanguy Ndombélé, who also underwent sports hernia surgery over the summer.

“We are talking about six players who could start. There are also players that could leave, others that will arrive. Are we more armed? I don’t have the response,” Haise said.

GFFN | Luke Entwistle