Olympique Lyonnais will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 16 points behind Olympique Marseille.
Olympique Lyonnais form and stats
Overall Ligue 1 stats at home this season for Olympique Lyonnais are 5-4-4 (wins-draw-losses).
In their previous game, the manager R. Garcia led his Olympique to a defeat in the Ligue 1 match away at Lille. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Groupama Stadium. Preceding that match was a Coupe de France defeat to Paris Saint Germain (1-5).
Olympique Lyonnais has scored 17 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. Olympique are not conceding a lot of goals here at Groupama Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 13 matches.
Olympique Marseille form and stats
Olympique Marseille's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Olympique Marseille collect 28 points from their 14 away matches in the Ligue 1. 8 victories and 4 draws have created these points (and only 2 defeats). Olympique are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played eight in a row without losing.
Olympique Marseille played 2-2 against Amiens SC in their previous match. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Nîmes at their stadium, the result 3-2.
Drawing 2-2 against Amiens SC after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager L. Pina Cabral Villas-Boas needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result.
Olympique find the net regularly in their away games. 20 goals from 14 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Olympique have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Olympique Marseille - Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Olympique victories, two draws and two Olympique Marseille wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Dembélé 16 goals |   D. Benedetto 11 goals |  M. Depay 9 goals |
Olympique Lyonnais missing players
Olympique Marseille missing players
| Olympique Lyonnais | Olympique Marseille | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 13 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 14 | 28 |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 10 | 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 42 | 17 | 2 | Scored | S | 6 | 20 | 41 |
| 27 | 7 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 15 | 29 |
| 93% | 85% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 79% | 86% |
| 68% | 54% | 25% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 71% | 75% |
| 46% | 23% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 43% | 46% |
| 21% | 8% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 29% | 29% |
| 11% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 14% | 7% |
| 43% | 23% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 43% | 54% |
| 32% | 46% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 75% | 50% | 39% |
| 32% | 46% | 75% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 29% | 21% |
| 4.6 | 5.2 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.6 | 5.4 |
| 4.3 | 4.4 | 6.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4 |
| 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 354 | 166 | 46 | Total Shots | T S | 47 | 161 | 379 |
| 137 | 66 | 12 | Shots on Target | S O | 15 | 52 | 114 |
| 31% | 26% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 38% | 36% |
- Olympique Lyonnais have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Olympique Marseille has the fewest dropped points from leading position (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 | Paris Saint Germain | 27 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 75 | 24 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 13 | 51 | 68 |
| 2 | Olympique Marseille | 28 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 41 | 29 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 56 |
| 3 | Rennes | 28 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 38 | 24 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 50 |
| 4 | Lille | 28 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 35 | 27 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 49 |
| 5 | Reims | 28 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 26 | 21 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 41 |
| 6 | Nice | 28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 41 | 38 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 28 | 20 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 3 | 41 |
| 7 | Olympique Lyonnais | 28 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 42 | 27 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 40 |
| 8 | Montpellier | 28 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 35 | 34 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 24 | 1 | 40 |
| 9 | Monaco | 28 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 44 | 44 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 0 | 40 |
| 10 | Angers SCO | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 33 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 20 | -5 | 39 |
| 11 | Strasbourg | 27 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 32 | 32 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 0 | 38 |
| 12 | Bordeaux | 28 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 40 | 34 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 6 | 37 |
| 13 | Nantes | 28 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 28 | 31 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 20 | -3 | 37 |
| 14 | Brest | 28 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 34 | 37 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 26 | -3 | 34 |
| 15 | Metz | 28 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 35 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -8 | 34 |
| 16 | Dijon | 28 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 27 | 37 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 22 | -10 | 30 |
| 17 | Saint-Étienne | 28 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 29 | 45 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 14 | 27 | -16 | 30 |
| 18 | Nîmes | 28 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 29 | 44 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 29 | -15 | 27 |
| 19 | Amiens SC | 28 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 31 | 50 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 27 | -19 | 23 |
| 20 | Toulouse | 28 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 22 | 58 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 24 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 34 | -36 | 13 |