Ligue 1: A pair of teams who have played superbly up to now. Let's get ready for Olympique Marseille - Lorient with this broad guide!
- Olympique Marseille is in the best form (5-1-0) in Ligue 1
- Lorient have the most points from losing position (12) in Ligue 1
Olympique Marseille's stadium, Stade Vélodrome, has a grass surface. Lorient have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Lorient when playing on grass; 8 wins, 14 draws and 16 losses from 38 matches. They have scored {46 goals} in these games and conceded 69.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Lorient, who are travelling more than 1100 kilometers to play this game.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Olympique Marseille form and stats
19 points is a decent return from 9 Ligue 1 games here at Stade Vélodrome for Olympique Marseille. The data says 6 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of five straight victories regardless of arena.
A good away victory last time out for Olympique, who won 2-0 against Troyes (placed 13th). Midfielder Veretout was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.04 (out of ten) in that game. Veretout scored one goal, hit two key passes and had 73 successful passes (of 79 total).
A victory at home ahead of that game, as expected. The team were huge favourites against Hyeres and won 2-0. The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Olympique Marseille home games with this odds we find 7 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 5 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 2 matches were won by at least two goals.
From these home matches, Olympique have conceded only 8 goals.
Lorient form and stats
The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 5 wins, 3 draws and only 1 loss in the Ligue 1.
There were no winners in Lorient's previous match, the home game that ended 2-2 vs Monaco (placed 5th). Midfielder Ouattara was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.11. Ouattara scored one goal, served one assist and hit one key pass.
Ahead of that, the Coupe de France victory away at La Chataigneraie. We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Lorient played away with similar odds. This revealed 6 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 3 were draws and the home team won as expected 3 times.
Observe that 10 of this team's 13 most recent league games have ended with at least three goals.
The travelling fans enjoy Lorient's attacking play in away games, having scored 16 goals in 9 league matches away. 13 goals have been conceded by Lorient in these games.
Head 2 Head
The 6 most recent fixtures featuring these teams have all finished as Olympique Marseille wins. Surely both teams are aware of this.Top Goalscorers
  T. Moffi 11 goals |  D. Faissal Ouattara 6 goals |   N. Varela Tavares 5 goals |
Olympique Marseille missing players
Lorient missing players
| Olympique Marseille | Lorient | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| 12 | 6 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 36 | 18 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 16 | 30 |
| 15 | 8 | 2 | Conceded | C | 5 | 13 | 26 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 78% | 67% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 78% | 83% |
| 56% | 56% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 67% | 72% |
| 22% | 22% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 44% | 39% |
| 17% | 22% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 11% | 11% |
| 56% | 67% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 78% | 78% |
| 33% | 22% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 22% | 17% |
| 11% | 11% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 5.4 | 6.7 | 9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 4.9 | 4.1 |
| 4.7 | 4.1 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 5.2 | 5.3 |
| 1.9 | 2.2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1 | 1.2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13.7 | 14.8 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 11.3 | 11.7 |
| 5.1 | 5.4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.4 | 5.1 |
| 39% | 37% | 12% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 40% | 33% |
| 11.8 | 10.3 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17 | 16 | 15.1 |
| 4.1 | 3.9 | 5.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 5 | 5.1 |
- Lorient have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Lorient have the most points from losing position (12) in Ligue 1
- Lorient have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Lorient haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Olympique Marseille have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Olympique Marseille have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Olympique Marseille haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Olympique Marseille is in the best form (5-1-0) in Ligue 1
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | PSG | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 48 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 5 | 35 | 47 |
| 2 | Lens | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 31 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 41 |
| 3 | Olympique Marseille | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 36 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 21 | 39 |
| 4 | Rennes | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 20 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 34 |
| 5 | Monaco | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 34 |
| 6 | Lorient | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 32 |
| 7 | Lille | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 30 | 24 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 31 |
| 8 | Olympique Lyonnais | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 27 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 25 |
| 9 | Clermont | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 10 | -4 | 25 |
| 10 | Nice | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 24 |
| 11 | Reims | 18 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 12 | -2 | 24 |
| 12 | Toulouse | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 28 | 33 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 19 | -5 | 22 |
| 13 | Troyes | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 29 | 35 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 19 | 22 | -6 | 18 |
| 14 | Nantes | 18 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -6 | 18 |
| 15 | Montpellier | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 28 | 37 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -9 | 17 |
| 16 | Ajaccio | 18 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 27 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 13 | -12 | 15 |
| 17 | Brest | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 33 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 16 | -15 | 14 |
| 18 | Auxerre | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 40 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 23 | -24 | 13 |
| 19 | Strasbourg | 18 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 22 | 33 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -11 | 12 |
| 20 | Angers SCO | 18 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 16 | 39 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 19 | -23 | 8 |
