PARIS: Nice may have been without Mario Balotelli but they ground out a 1-0 win at Nancy on Sunday (Monday in Manila) to go back to the top of the Ligue 1 table.

With Balotelli, scorer of four goals in his first two appearances in French football, left behind on the Cote d’Azur due to an adductor problem, his fellow striker Alassane Plea scored the only goal of the game at the Stade Marcel-Picot.

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