Champions League betting and spectator preview: Olympique Marseille and Sporting CP meet at venue to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
Sporting CP have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1600 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Olympique and Sporting CP.
Olympique Marseille form and stats
Last season, Olympique Marseille's Europa League journey ended in the group stage.Olympique Marseille have collected 13 points from their Ligue 1 home games so far after 4-1-0.
Olympique enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Angers SCO's place. The match ended 3-0 with Clauss, Suárez and Gerson scoring. Midfield player Clauss got a match rating of 9.11 in that game, the max score being 10. Clauss scored one goal, signed up for two assists, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 26 successful passes (of 30 total).
In the match before that, Olympique Marseille hosted Rennes and drew the Ligue 1 game 1-1.This is expected to be a close game, with Olympique Marseille perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Olympique Marseille as a small favourite), we find 7 games. Olympique Marseille has won 2 of these, drawn 3 and lost 2.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Olympique Marseille, as the Ligue 1 home game vs Ajaccio is only four days away.
From these home matches, Olympique have conceded only 4 goals.
Sporting CP form and stats
They also participated in Champions League last season. This ended in the 8th finals, when Manchester City drew the shortest straw.The visitors are W1-D1-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Primeira Liga.
Sporting CP go into this game after a win, the home game against Gil Vicente that ended 3-1. Morita got a match rating of 8.34 in that game, top player of the team. Morita scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 38 successful passes (of 44 total).
It was a Primeira Liga defeat before that one as the away game against Boavista wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Primeira Liga trip to Santa Clara.
Sporting CP has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 6 goals from 4 games.
Head 2 Head
Statistics for the last two meetings featuring these two participants are: one win for Olympique Marseille, one draw and zero wins for Sporting CP. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: one game.
Top Goalscorers
  Pote 5 goals |   A. Sánchez Sánchez 4 goals |  L. Suárez 3 goals |
Olympique Marseille missing players
Sporting CP missing players
| Olympique Marseille | Sporting CP | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 14 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 38 | 21 | Scored | S | 21 | 50 | ||
| 29 | 16 | Conceded | C | 13 | 27 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 90% | 96% | ||
| 52% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 80% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 16% | ||
| 40% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 30% | 32% | ||
| 32% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 20% | ||
| 4.8 | 5.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 6 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.4 | 2.9 | ||
| 1.9 | 2.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.3 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 11.4 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.6 | 14.8 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 5.9 | ||
| 36% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 35% | ||
| 10.4 | 9.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.4 | 8.2 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sporting CP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Tottenham Hotspur | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -2 | 3 |
| 4 | Olympique Marseille | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -3 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Olympique Marseille | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 14 | 23 |
| 2 | PSG | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 22 | 22 |
| 3 | Lorient | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 19 |
| 4 | Lens | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| 5 | Monaco | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| 6 | Olympique Lyonnais | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13 |
| 7 | Lille | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 13 |
| 8 | Rennes | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 12 |
| 9 | Montpellier | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 12 |
| 10 | Troyes | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 11 | -2 | 10 |
| 11 | Clermont | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -4 | 10 |
| 12 | Toulouse | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 8 |
| 13 | Nice | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -4 | 8 |
| 14 | Angers SCO | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -12 | 8 |
| 15 | Nantes | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 7 |
| 16 | Auxerre | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -11 | 7 |
| 17 | Reims | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -7 | 6 |
| 18 | Strasbourg | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 5 |
| 19 | Brest | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -10 | 5 |
| 20 | Ajaccio | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -7 | 4 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Benfica | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 21 |
| 2 | Sporting Braga | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 19 |
| 3 | Porto | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 19 |
| 4 | Portimonense | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| 5 | Boavista | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15 |
| 6 | Casa Pia | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| 7 | Sporting CP | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| 8 | Estoril | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 9 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 | Gil Vicente | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 9 |
| 11 | Chaves | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 12 | Arouca | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -9 | 8 |
| 13 | Rio Ave | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 6 |
| 14 | Santa Clara | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 5 |
| 15 | Vizela | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 5 |
| 16 | Famalicao | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | -7 | 4 |
| 17 | Pacos de Ferreira | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -10 | 1 |
| 18 | Maritimo | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 17 | -18 | 0 |
