Two grounds have names on Lille's record. The Stade Pierre-Mauroy, where this club was the home side in both of the named-ground matches in the file. The Allianz Riviera, where the most recent match was played — with Nice as the home side. Two names on a page of six matches, and both of them worth holding on to, because a named ground is the difference between a result and a place.
Sunday the thirteenth of September, 2026, at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy, with Lille at home to Troyes: two-nil. Clean and quiet, the sort of afternoon that is gone by Thursday. Then Sunday the twentieth — four days before this copy was written — at the Allianz Riviera, Nice as the home side: the line reads 2-1. Home side first: Nice two, Lille one. A one-goal away defeat.
Five of the six matches on this record are against Nice, and they split cleanly down the middle of a ground. At home to Nice: two-one on the seventeenth of January, 2025, and nil-nil at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy on the eighteenth of April, 2026. Away at Nice: two-two on the tenth of November, 2024; then the line reading 2-0 on the twenty-ninth of October, 2025 — a two-nil defeat; then Sunday's one-goal defeat at the Allianz Riviera. Three trips to the same opponent and no wins among them. Three home afternoons in the record and one goal conceded across all three.
Read the two halves side by side and the shape is unmistakable. At home: two-one, nil-nil, two-nil — four scored and one conceded in three afternoons. Away: a draw and two defeats from three trips, three scored and six conceded. The only goal conceded at home went in during a two-one win, which is the polite sort of goal to concede: the kind that changes nothing. Every away day in this record is the same trip against the same opponent, and it keeps ending at the wrong side of a close score.
There is a version of this page where the two-nil over Troyes is the boring row. It is the only one with a different opponent in it, no away trip attached, and no argument in the score. It is also the cleanest shape in football: two scored, none conceded, and nothing to relitigate afterwards. Pages need rows like that, the same way a diary needs quiet weeks.
That is the thing about a record like this one. It is small, it is lopsided, and it still has a pattern big enough to argue about: one ground where almost nothing goes wrong, one fixture where almost nothing goes right, and a two-nil over Troyes in between that looks calmer every time you read it.
Names matter on a results page. "Away, two-one defeat" gives you the score; "at the Allianz Riviera, two-one defeat" tells you where somebody stood on a Sunday afternoon and which way they were facing. Six matches is not much of a map, but it has two places marked on it.
The league line that all of this feeds is in the numbers block below, and it is a good deal calmer than the away trips suggest.
By the numbers — Ligue 1: 4th · 5 played · 3–1–1 · 8–4 · 10 pts · form WDWWL (oldest → newest). All data from ScoreCrowd's match records, retrieved 24 September 2026.
The grounds have names, the home record has a pattern, and the next chapter lands when the data does.