Champions League betting and spectator preview: Sporting CP and Olympique Marseille meet at Estádio José Alvalade to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1600 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
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.
Sporting CP form and stats
Last season, Sporting CP's Champions League journey ended in the 8th finals against Manchester City.When playing at home in the Primeira Liga, Sporting CP have managed 3 wins, 0 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 4 games. 2W-0D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Champions League for Sporting CP.
Happy days for Sporting CP in their previous game, a fixture away at Santa Clara that ended with a 2-1 victory. Morita (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.43/10. Morita scored one goal and had 23 successful passes (of 28 total).
Before that game, a loss in the away fixture against Olympique Marseille in the Champions League.
Sporting CP are traveling soon after this match as the Taça De Portugal match at Varzim awaits in four days.
Goals decide football matches and Sporting CP are scoring many of them at home; 10 on target from 4 league matches. From these home matches, Sporting CP have conceded only 3 goals.
Olympique Marseille form and stats
Olympique Marseille's mission in Europa League last season failed in the group stage.As the visiting team in Ligue 1 matches, Olympique Marseille have produced an overall stat of 3-1-0 so far. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Champions League stats, they have 1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses both home and away.
Olympique have much to prove after their unpredictable loss (1-2) to Ajaccio in their previous outing, played at their own home ground. Attacker Payet got a player rating of 7.31 in the game. "Man of the match" Payet scored one goal, hit one key pass and had 17 successful passes (of 21 total).
Before that one, the win at home hosting Sporting CP in the Champions League (4-1). So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Olympique Marseille playing away and similar expectations, we found 5 relevant matches. Results were 2 Olympique Marseille wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats.
Olympique Marseille have another game that requires travelling in just four nights, a Ligue 1 fixture vs Paris Saint Germain. A demanding fixture list for the visitors!
The Olympique manager Tudor has got the team scoring on the road, with 9 away goals in 4 league matches. Olympique Marseille are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only {1 goals} away.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have fought before this season: Olympique Marseille - Sporting CP 4-1. Statistics for the prior three meetings between these two participants are: zero wins for Sporting CP, one draw and two wins for Olympique Marseille. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: one game.
Top Goalscorers
  Pote 5 goals |   A. Sánchez Sánchez 4 goals |  N. Santos 3 goals |
Sporting CP missing players
Olympique Marseille missing players
| Sporting CP | Olympique Marseille | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 9 | ||
| 48 | 27 | Scored | S | 16 | 39 | ||
| 31 | 14 | Conceded | C | 11 | 28 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 84% | ||
| 60% | 43% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 9% | 20% | ||
| 20% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 27% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 45% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 32% | ||
| 6 | 6.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 5 | ||
| 3.1 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.1 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.8 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 14.3 | 15.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.8 | 11.8 | ||
| 5.7 | 6.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 4.4 | ||
| 35% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 35% | ||
| 9 | 7.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.8 | 10.3 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.5 | ||
| 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 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | Tottenham Hotspur | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -2 | 4 |
| 4 | Olympique Marseille | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 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 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 25 |
| 2 | Porto | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 22 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 19 |
| 4 | Casa Pia | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 17 |
| 5 | Sporting CP | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 16 |
| 6 | Estoril | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
| 7 | Portimonense | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 15 |
| 8 | Boavista | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 15 |
| 9 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 10 | Chaves | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 9 |
| 11 | Rio Ave | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 | -4 | 9 |
| 12 | Gil Vicente | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 9 |
| 13 | Arouca | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -9 | 9 |
| 14 | Vizela | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 8 |
| 15 | Famalicao | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | -3 | 7 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 5 |
| 17 | Pacos de Ferreira | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -11 | 2 |
| 18 | Maritimo | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 17 | -19 | 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 | Paris Saint Germain | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 23 | 26 |
| 2 | Olympique Marseille | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 23 |
| 3 | Lorient | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 22 |
| 4 | Lens | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 21 |
| 5 | Monaco | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 17 |
| 6 | Rennes | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 15 |
| 7 | Olympique Lyonnais | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 14 |
| 8 | Lille | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | -1 | 13 |
| 9 | Clermont | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | -2 | 13 |
| 10 | Montpellier | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 12 |
| 11 | Toulouse | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 12 |
| 12 | Troyes | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 11 | -2 | 11 |
| 13 | Nice | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -5 | 8 |
| 14 | Reims | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -7 | 8 |
| 15 | Auxerre | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -11 | 8 |
| 16 | Angers SCO | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -12 | 8 |
| 17 | Nantes | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -6 | 7 |
| 18 | Ajaccio | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -8 | 7 |
| 19 | Brest | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -10 | 6 |
| 20 | Strasbourg | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -5 | 5 |
