Nancy and Nantes in the end had to share the spoils after an unappetising mid-table battle.

Neither team has much to play for in terms of relegation or European football and it showed in a sterile match with the first half particularly bereft of incident.

Nantes were the only team that threatened in the first period and even then only rarely.

Habib Bamogo did well to create a chance for himself but fired wide and then Gennaro Bracigliano's miscued clearance almost let in Bamogo for another attempt on goal.

Nancy hardly threatened at all in the first period, although they have had a solid reintroduction to Ligue 1 after winning promotion last season and have also reached the Coupe de la Ligue final where they will face Nice next month.

Nancy were a little better in the second half and Jerome Brison broke through only to be halted by Frederic Da Rocha, who only earned a yellow card for the foul.

Bracigliano had to rush out of his goal to foil Dennis Oliech after 64 minutes and the Kenyan striker continued to be a thorn in the side of the Lorraine club.

Nancy almost scored an own goal after 78 minutes when Moncef Zerka almost turned a free-kick from Milos Dimitrijevic into his own net under pressure from Bamogo.

Nantes had one more chance to score in stoppage time when Loic Guillon tried to execute a volley, which went just wide of the net.