Nice skipper offers Viera backing

Nice captain Dante has backed boss Patrick Viera to turn their fortunes around. Nice are winless in six games and have lost their last four in a row, including a Coupe de la Ligue defeat to second-tier Le Mans last time out.
The club’s slide has seen Viera come under pressure and there are reports Nice are weighing up a change in manager.
Dante, 36, has offered the boss his support and says the players must do more. “Critics are part of the life of an ambitious club, we accept it, we lift our heads and we work, but we have to work very, very hard,” he told reporters. “The coach puts a system in place and he says what he wants, but it is the players who are playing. If I cannot make a pass, it’s not the coach, it’s not the coach who wins the duels… everyone must take responsibility.”
Nice sit in 15th spot in the Ligue 1 table ahead of the visit of in-form Reims on Sunday.
Viera will definitely be without midfielder Adam Ounas on Sunday due to a knee injury, while striker Kasper Dolberg, midfielder Stanley Nsoki and defender Ibrahim Cisse are all rated as doubts.