Both contenders are satisfied with a quality season so far and fixtures like this could be decisive. Get ready for Monaco - Olympique Marseille!
- Monaco have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Olympique Marseille have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Monaco form and stats
Overall Ligue 1 statistics at home this season for Monaco are 3-2-2 (wins-draws-losses).
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Alexander Nubel not having conceded a league goal in 199 minutes.
Happy days for Monaco in their previous game, a fixture away at Toulouse (placed 12th) that ended with a 2-0 victory. Midfielder Golovin was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.8 (out of ten) in that game. Golovin scored one goal, hit six key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Preceding that result, a home victory against Crvena Zvezda in the Europa League.
The Monaco fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 13 goals in 7 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Monaco defense is not exactly impregnable. 12 goals conceded from 7 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Olympique Marseille form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Ligue 1 travels is 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.
Olympique are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the fixture against Olympique Lyonnais (placed 8th). That win felt good as this side had gone four league matches without winning. López was the team player of the game with the player rating of 7.75. The agile goalkeeper López topped it up with a clean sheet.
The match before that was the Champions League-battle against Tottenham Hotspur, a home loss (1-2). 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 3 Olympique Marseille wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
Olympique has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 11 goals from 6 games. It's not easy to score on Olympique Marseille as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between these contenders: Monaco won four, Olympique Marseille triumphed in four and we saw two draws. seven games with more than 2,5 goals, three matches with under 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Embolo 7 goals |  W. Ben Yedder 5 goals |   A. Sánchez Sánchez 4 goals |
Monaco missing players
Olympique Marseille missing players
| Monaco | Olympique Marseille | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 27 | 13 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 11 | 23 |
| 18 | 12 | 5 | Conceded | C | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 83% | 71% |
| 50% | 57% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 29% | 43% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 14% |
| 29% | 43% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 64% | 86% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 36% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 36% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 17% | 14% |
| 4.6 | 4.3 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 3.3 | 5.6 |
| 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 5.7 | 4.6 |
| 2.1 | 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.5 | 2 |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12.4 | 9.3 | 11.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 19 | 13 | 13.9 |
| 5.9 | 4.3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 4.8 | 5 |
| 33% | 43% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 38% | 33% |
| 14.5 | 15.4 | 18.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 23 | 15.8 | 12.7 |
| 5.4 | 6 | 7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8 | 4.7 | 4.1 |
- All of Monaco's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Monaco have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Monaco have scored in all their matches so far.
- Monaco haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Olympique Marseille have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Olympique Marseille have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Olympique Marseille haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 2 | 29 | 38 |
| 2 | Lens | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 33 |
| 3 | Rennes | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 28 |
| 4 | Olympique Marseille | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 27 |
| 5 | Monaco | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 27 |
| 6 | Lorient | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 27 |
| 7 | Lille | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 23 |
| 8 | Olympique Lyonnais | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 20 |
| 9 | Nice | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | -2 | 19 |
| 10 | Clermont | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | -3 | 19 |
| 11 | Reims | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -5 | 16 |
| 12 | Toulouse | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -6 | 16 |
| 13 | Troyes | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 29 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 18 | -4 | 14 |
| 14 | Montpellier | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 23 | 28 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 16 | -5 | 13 |
| 15 | Auxerre | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 17 | -12 | 13 |
| 16 | Nantes | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -7 | 12 |
| 17 | Ajaccio | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -10 | 11 |
| 18 | Strasbourg | 14 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -9 | 10 |
| 19 | Brest | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 15 | -13 | 10 |
| 20 | Angers SCO | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 33 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -18 | 8 |
