Le Mans 1-1 Olympique Marseille: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 27 September 2008
Result
Le Mans 1-1 Olympique Marseille
Ligue 1 · Saturday 27 September 2008, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Le Mans 1-1 Olympique Marseille: match report
Le Mans drew with Olympique Marseille 1-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 27 September 2008. The half-time score was 1-1.
Hatem Ben Arfa opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Le Mans's goal came from Thorstein Helstad (10'). Olympique Marseille scored through Hatem Ben Arfa (7').
Discipline: Le Mans received 3 yellow cards; Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Le Mans were 4th on 10 points from 6 and Olympique Marseille 2nd on 12 points from 6. Le Mans went on to finish that season 16th with 40 points, and Olympique Marseille 2nd with 77.
Le Mans lined up in a 4-3-3 and Olympique Marseille in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Le Mans wins, 2 draws and 2 for Olympique Marseille.
Going into the match Le Mans's last five read D-L-W-W-W and Olympique Marseille's D-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 7'Goal · Hatem Ben Arfa
- 10'Goal · Thorstein Helstad
- 16'Yellow card · Saber Ben Frej
- 21'Yellow card · Lorik Cana
- 49'Yellow card · Géder
- 90'Yellow card · Ibrahima Camara
Head-to-head
Team news
Le Mans expected line-up (4-3-3)
Yohann Pelé, Marko Baša, Ibrahima Camara, Gregory Cerdan, Mathieu Coutadeur, Romaric, Túlio de Melo, Gervinho, Anthony Le Tallec
Olympique Marseille expected line-up (4-5-1)
Steve Mandanda, Laurent Bonnart, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Lorik Cana, Julien Rodriguez, Ronald Zubar, Modeste M'bami, Samir Nasri, Benoît Cheyrou, Djibril Cissé, Mamadou Niang