Nice's raid on the Premier League this summer brought an unlikely scorer in Belgrade on Thursday as Fulham loanee Joe Bryan struck to secure a draw against Partizan.
Kasper Schmeichel saw his clean sheet vanish on the hour mark when Fousseni Diabate, teed up by Bibras Natcho, broke Nice's resistance having gone ahead through Bryan.
There was no Aaron Ramsey or Ross Barkley for the French side and there remains work to do after a mixed display in Serbia.