Soccer match preview: Paris Saint Germain confident before travelling to Olympique Marseille

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Competition: France Ligue 1
Competition: Sun 24.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Orange Vélodrome (67000 seats)

These two squads are delivering a fine season so far and fixtures like this one could be deciding. Get ready for Olympique Marseille - Paris Saint Germain!

Insights:
  • Olympique Marseille have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Paris Saint Germain have the most scored goals (24) in Ligue 1

There have been little to rest for the home team, as they had a Europa League match only three days back. That game was an away game at Lazio, so at least Olympique are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Olympique Marseille form and stats

When playing at home in the Ligue 1, Olympique Marseille have managed 3 wins, 1 draw and suffered 1 defeat from 5 games.

Olympique shared the glory with Lazio in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Goalkeeper Pau López got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.12 out of ten. López stopped the opponent with five saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.

Before that, Olympique had a Ligue 1 home game versus Lorient which ended with a victory 4-1.

Olympique are traveling soon after this match as the Ligue 1 match at Nice awaits in three days.

Goals are plentiful at Orange Vélodrome in the league this season as Olympique has scored 13 goals here in 5 home games. Olympique have conceded 7 in these home matches.

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Paris Saint Germain form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (24) in Ligue 1, on their Ligue 1 travels is 4 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

The supporters enjoyed Paris Saint Germain's previous game versus RB Leipzig, a Champions League 3-2 win played at home. Lionel Messi, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.41. Messi scored two goals, hit the woodwork once, dribled past the opponent 7 of 10 times and had 52 successful passes (of 57 total).

Before that, Paris secured a home win against Angers SCO with the score 2-1.

The Paris Saint Germain manager M. Pochettino Trossero has got the team scoring on the road, with 10 away goals in 5 league matches. Paris have conceded 6 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Olympique one win, one draw and Paris Saint Germain eight victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Olympique Marseille missing players

Paris Saint Germain missing players

Olympique Marseille Paris Saint Germain
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
9 5 1 Played P 0 5 10
5 3 0 Won W 0 4 9
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 1 1 Lost L 0 1 1
18 13 2 Scored S 0 10 24
11 7 3 Conceded C 0 6 10
89% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
89% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
56% 80% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 60% 70%
56% 80% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 30%
33% 40% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 20%
56% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 60% 60%
33% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 30%
22% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 10%
 
5 5 5 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4 5.2
4.7 5.2 7 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4.4 4.6
1.4 1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.8 1.9
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.8 14.2 15 Shots (avg) S ( 0 14 13.7
4.4 4.6 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 4.5
45% 57% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 50% 53%
Key stats in Ligue 1 this season:
  • All of Olympique Marseille's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Paris Saint Germain's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Olympique Marseille have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Olympique Marseille have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Olympique Marseille haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Paris Saint Germain have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Paris Saint Germain have the most points (12) away in Ligue 1
  • Paris Saint Germain have the most points from losing position (9) in Ligue 1
  • Paris Saint Germain have the most scored goals (10) away in Ligue 1
  • Paris Saint Germain have the most scored goals (24) in Ligue 1
  • Paris Saint Germain have the most scored goals in the first half (12) in Ligue 1
  • Paris Saint Germain have the most scored goals in the second half (12) in Ligue 1
  • Paris Saint Germain have the the best goal difference (+14) in Ligue 1
  • Paris Saint Germain have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Paris Saint Germain haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Paris Saint Germain is in the best form (5-0-1)

  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 9 0 1 24 10 5 5 0 0 14 4 5 4 0 1 10 6 14 27
2 Lens 10 5 3 2 16 11 5 2 2 1 7 5 5 3 1 1 9 6 5 18
3 Olympique Marseille 9 5 2 2 18 11 5 3 1 1 13 7 4 2 1 1 5 4 7 17
4 Nice 9 5 2 2 17 5 4 2 2 0 8 3 5 3 0 2 9 2 12 16
5 Angers SCO 10 4 4 2 15 11 5 3 1 1 9 6 5 1 3 1 6 5 4 16
6 Olympique Lyonnais 10 4 4 2 16 13 6 3 3 0 13 7 4 1 1 2 3 6 3 16
7 Rennes 10 4 3 3 15 9 5 3 1 1 10 3 5 1 2 2 5 6 6 15
8 Strasbourg 10 4 2 4 18 15 6 3 1 2 13 7 4 1 1 2 5 8 3 14
9 Nantes 10 4 2 4 14 11 5 3 0 2 7 4 5 1 2 2 7 7 3 14
10 Monaco 10 4 2 4 14 13 5 2 1 2 7 6 5 2 1 2 7 7 1 14
11 Lille 10 4 2 4 13 15 4 3 0 1 6 6 6 1 2 3 7 9 -2 14
12 Lorient 10 3 5 2 11 13 4 3 1 0 5 2 6 0 4 2 6 11 -2 14
13 Montpellier 10 3 4 3 17 16 6 3 2 1 12 8 4 0 2 2 5 8 1 13
14 Clermont 10 3 4 3 13 20 5 2 2 1 7 6 5 1 2 2 6 14 -7 13
15 Reims 10 2 5 3 11 12 4 1 2 1 6 6 6 1 3 2 5 6 -1 11
16 Troyes 10 2 3 5 9 14 5 1 2 2 5 6 5 1 1 3 4 8 -5 9
17 Bordeaux 10 1 5 4 12 21 5 0 3 2 5 8 5 1 2 2 7 13 -9 8
18 Metz 10 1 3 6 11 22 5 0 2 3 5 11 5 1 1 3 6 11 -11 6
19 Brest 10 0 5 5 11 19 5 0 3 2 6 9 5 0 2 3 5 10 -8 5
20 Saint-Étienne 10 0 4 6 9 23 5 0 3 2 4 8 5 0 1 4 5 15 -14 4

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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.