Edinson Cavani, Kylian Mbappe and Angel Di Maria also made star turns as the French top flight returned this past weekend
After finishing seventh in Ligue 1 last season, the expectation is that Patrick Vieira’s Nice will struggle to match that achievement this time around.
In the midst of a takeover, the club’s summer transfer business has ground to a standstill, preventing them from signing the replacement for Mario Balotelli that they have been seeking since the Italian left them in January.
But if Vieira does not have a superstar centre-forward he can rely on, he does have the gigantic defensive figure of Dante to lean towards as he learned once more when Les Aiglons got off to a winning start thanks to a dramatic 2-1 home win over Amiens.