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Competition: France Ligue 1
Competition: Sun 01.May
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Orange Vélodrome (67000 seats)

Ligue 1: Olympique Marseille receive Olympique Lyonnais in what is nearly guaranteed to be an engrossing football fixture. Here's a thorough preview!

Insights:
  • Olympique Marseille have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Olympique Lyonnais have won significantly less corners away then at home.

Not a lot of time to rest for the hosting team, as they played a Europa Conference League fixture only three days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Feyenoord.

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Olympique Marseille form and stats

When playing at home in the Ligue 1, Olympique Marseille have managed 8 wins, 5 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 17 games. There’s a good atmosphere here at Orange Vélodrome after three straight home wins.

The club members hope that Olympique will fight back in this game, putting things right after the 2-3 away defeat in the Europa Conference League fixture against Feyenoord. The striker Payet bettered all the other footballers in that fixture and received a match rating of 8.34 out of 10. Payet hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Reims.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Olympique Marseille have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won two, drawn two and lost one.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Feyenoord are coming to town in four days.

A decent goal production from Olympique Marseille in their home games so far, with 29 goals from 17 league matches. Olympique Marseille's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 19 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Olympique Lyonnais form and stats

4-6-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Olympique Lyonnais in their Ligue 1 matches away.

The followers enjoyed Lyon's previous match versus Montpellier (placed 12th), a 5-2 win played at home. A bonkers match with lots of goals last time out for Olympique Lyonnais, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this fixture be as much fun? Which player has bagged at least one goal three matches in a row for the away side? The correct answer is Dembélé and that is solid stuff! Midfield player Aouar was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.8/10. Aouar scored two goals, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 58 successful passes (of 63 total).

A 1-2 defeat away at Brest before that.

The visiting Olympique Lyonnais have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 17 goals from 16 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Lyon have conceded 22 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these two sides meet this season, as the statistics show this recent game: Olympique Lyonnais - Olympique Marseille 2-1. Head to head totals (for the former ten meetings): Olympique Marseille won two games, two matches ended with a draw and Olympique Lyonnais got six wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / four The matches between these sides sometimes lean towards being brutal, having seen 5 red cards from the last ten duels.

Top Goalscorers

Olympique LyonnaisM. Dembélé
M. Dembélé
16 goals
OlympiqueD. Payet
D. Payet
12 goals
Olympique LyonnaisK. Toko Ekambi
K. Toko Ekambi
11 goals

Olympique Marseille missing players

Olympique Lyonnais missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Olympique Marseille Olympique Lyonnais
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
34 17 6 Played P 5 16 34
19 8 2 Won W 0 4 14
8 5 2 Drew D 1 6 11
7 4 2 Lost L 4 6 9
56 29 10 Scored S 5 17 56
33 19 9 Conceded C 12 22 45
91% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 94%
74% 76% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 69% 79%
41% 47% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 44% 50%
26% 35% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 25% 32%
21% 24% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 40% 19% 24%
53% 59% 83% BTTS BTTS 80% 56% 68%
38% 29% 17% Clean Sheets C S 0% 31% 24%
18% 24% 0% Failed to Score F T 20% 25% 15%
 
5.8 6.2 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4 4.9
4 4 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5.6 5.4 4.6
1.6 1.3 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.2 2.1 1.7
3 2 1 Red cards R C 1 4 5
 
13.2 14.9 15.5 Shots (avg) S ( 12.2 13.4 14.5
4.2 4.2 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.4 4.2 5.1
39% 40% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 23% 25% 32%
 
8.7 8.3 7.5 Shots against (avg) S A 15.6 13.8 12.1
3.1 3.5 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.6 5.4 4.8
Key stats in Ligue 1 this season:
  • Olympique Lyonnais have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Olympique Marseille have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  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 34 24 6 4 76 31 17 15 2 0 42 10 17 9 4 4 34 21 45 78
2 Olympique Marseille 34 19 8 7 56 33 17 8 5 4 29 19 17 11 3 3 27 14 23 65
3 Rennes 34 18 5 11 75 36 17 12 1 4 46 13 17 6 4 7 29 23 39 59
4 Monaco 34 17 8 9 55 35 17 10 4 3 32 14 17 7 4 6 23 21 20 59
5 Nice 34 17 7 10 43 29 17 9 4 4 22 16 17 8 3 6 21 13 14 57
6 Strasbourg 34 15 11 8 55 36 17 10 4 3 32 15 17 5 7 5 23 21 19 56
7 Lens 34 15 9 10 53 42 17 9 5 3 31 16 17 6 4 7 22 26 11 54
8 Olympique Lyonnais 34 14 11 9 56 45 18 10 5 3 39 23 16 4 6 6 17 22 11 52
9 Lille 34 13 12 9 42 40 17 7 7 3 21 18 17 6 5 6 21 22 2 51
10 Nantes 34 14 8 12 48 41 17 10 3 4 30 18 17 4 5 8 18 23 7 50
11 Brest 34 12 9 13 43 48 16 6 4 6 24 24 18 6 5 7 19 24 -5 45
12 Montpellier 34 12 6 16 46 51 17 7 4 6 25 20 17 5 2 10 21 31 -5 42
13 Reims 34 9 13 12 36 37 17 5 6 6 22 18 17 4 7 6 14 19 -1 40
14 Angers SCO 34 8 11 15 38 51 17 6 2 9 17 22 17 2 9 6 21 29 -13 35
15 Lorient 34 8 10 16 33 57 16 6 5 5 18 16 18 2 5 11 15 41 -24 34
16 Troyes 34 8 9 17 30 47 17 4 7 6 15 16 17 4 2 11 15 31 -17 33
17 Clermont 34 8 9 17 35 63 17 3 6 8 19 30 17 5 3 9 16 33 -28 33
18 Saint-Etienne 34 7 10 17 38 68 18 4 6 8 23 36 16 3 4 9 15 32 -30 31
19 Bordeaux 34 5 12 17 47 84 17 3 6 8 25 32 17 2 6 9 22 52 -37 27
20 Metz 34 4 12 18 29 60 17 1 7 9 17 29 17 3 5 9 12 31 -31 24

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Table
  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 34 24 6 4 76 31 17 15 2 0 42 10 17 9 4 4 34 21 45 78
2 Olympique Marseille 34 19 8 7 56 33 17 8 5 4 29 19 17 11 3 3 27 14 23 65
3 Rennes 34 18 5 11 75 36 17 12 1 4 46 13 17 6 4 7 29 23 39 59
4 Monaco 34 17 8 9 55 35 17 10 4 3 32 14 17 7 4 6 23 21 20 59
5 Nice 34 17 7 10 43 29 17 9 4 4 22 16 17 8 3 6 21 13 14 57
6 Strasbourg 34 15 11 8 55 36 17 10 4 3 32 15 17 5 7 5 23 21 19 56
7 Lens 34 15 9 10 53 42 17 9 5 3 31 16 17 6 4 7 22 26 11 54
8 Olympique Lyonnais 34 14 11 9 56 45 18 10 5 3 39 23 16 4 6 6 17 22 11 52
9 Lille 34 13 12 9 42 40 17 7 7 3 21 18 17 6 5 6 21 22 2 51
10 Nantes 34 14 8 12 48 41 17 10 3 4 30 18 17 4 5 8 18 23 7 50
11 Brest 34 12 9 13 43 48 16 6 4 6 24 24 18 6 5 7 19 24 -5 45
12 Montpellier 34 12 6 16 46 51 17 7 4 6 25 20 17 5 2 10 21 31 -5 42
13 Reims 34 9 13 12 36 37 17 5 6 6 22 18 17 4 7 6 14 19 -1 40
14 Angers SCO 34 8 11 15 38 51 17 6 2 9 17 22 17 2 9 6 21 29 -13 35
15 Lorient 34 8 10 16 33 57 16 6 5 5 18 16 18 2 5 11 15 41 -24 34
16 Troyes 34 8 9 17 30 47 17 4 7 6 15 16 17 4 2 11 15 31 -17 33
17 Clermont 34 8 9 17 35 63 17 3 6 8 19 30 17 5 3 9 16 33 -28 33
18 Saint-Etienne 34 7 10 17 38 68 18 4 6 8 23 36 16 3 4 9 15 32 -30 31
19 Bordeaux 34 5 12 17 47 84 17 3 6 8 25 32 17 2 6 9 22 52 -37 27
20 Metz 34 4 12 18 29 60 17 1 7 9 17 29 17 3 5 9 12 31 -31 24

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Ligue 1 is the top league in the French football league system. Seasons run from August to May with 20 teams playing a total of 380 fixtures. The team topping the league table after the final game is the champion of France, receiving the trophy L’Hexagoal. Ligue 1 is one of the top five European leagues.