Despite Nice flopping a bit in their quest for the Ligue 1 title, is still applaud their consistency so far because it's not really easy to maintain such form since the season began and even maintain the second position after losing our the top position to Paris Saint German. Nice have won 10 out of 17 matches they've played so far, drew 5 and lost just 2 and has a total of 40 points so definitely they're good and one thing I admire about Nice is their solid defense as they don't concede too many goals that's why they conceded just 9 goals in their league matches this season and scored a total of 19 goals.
Actually, such a small number of conceded is certainly a good result but unfortunately, at the same time the reality is that Nice does not have a high number of goals. So ya, although Nice is in second place and 5 points different with PSG, but I think Nice is still not strong enough to be able to compete in the title race. But yes, at least with results like this it is possible for Nice to finish in the top 3 and will play in the Champions League next season, of course it will still be a good result for Nice this season.
In the first half Nice done good job and keep things at the top even they are not having luxuries like PSG but still their defense is one of the best in this season, but sadly their defensive tactics are not going to help them for winning title they need to add some aggressive striker which helps them and increase their number of goals as well in last few matches before break they lost 2 matches both were against low rank teams which are surely painful but still they are doing decent job which is going to help them for having better results.
After break, things will be on another level as few teams are trying to join at the top, and they will do as much they can like Monaco, Marseille and Lille surprise package Brest and Lens are also doing good job, so Nice needs to change their way of playing and need to be aggressive approach which can give them better spot at the end.