Lens 3-3 Olympique Marseille: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 16 March 2008

Result

Lens 3-3 Olympique Marseille

Ligue 1 · Sunday 16 March 2008, 19:55 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Lens 3-3 Olympique Marseille: match report

Lens drew with Olympique Marseille 3-3 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 16 March 2008. The half-time score was 0-2.

Samir Nasri opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Lens's goals came from Toifilou Maoulida (56'), Kader Mangane (66') and Loïc Rémy (74'). Olympique Marseille scored through Samir Nasri (25'), Benoît Cheyrou (29') and Djibril Cissé (89').

Discipline: Lens received 2 yellow cards; Olympique Marseille received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Lens were 16th on 33 points from 28 and Olympique Marseille 4th on 45 points from 28. Lens went on to finish that season 18th with 40 points, and Olympique Marseille 3rd with 62.

Lens lined up in a 4-3-3 and Olympique Marseille in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Lens wins, 2 draws and 1 for Olympique Marseille.

Going into the match Lens's last five read L-D-D-L-D and Olympique Marseille's W-W-D-W-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Yellow card · André AyewOlympique Marseille
  • 25'Goal · Samir NasriOlympique Marseille · 0-1
  • 29'Goal · Benoît CheyrouOlympique Marseille · 0-2
  • 32'Yellow card · Charles KaboréOlympique Marseille
  • 42'Yellow card · N. BelhadjLens
  • 56'Goal · Toifilou MaoulidaLens · 1-2
  • 58'Yellow card · Benoît CheyrouOlympique Marseille
  • 66'Goal · Kader ManganeLens · 2-2
  • 74'Goal · Loïc RémyLens · 3-2
  • 89'Goal · Djibril CisséOlympique Marseille · 3-3
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Loïc RémyLens

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Lens 2, draws 2, Olympique Marseille 1.

Team news

Lens line-up (4-3-3)

Vedran Runje, Adama Coulibaly, Kader Mangane, Fabien Laurenti, Nadir Belhadj, Toifilou Maoulida, Loïc Rémy, Kévin Monnet-Paquet, Vitorino Hilton, Nenad Kovacevic, Yohan Demont

Olympique Marseille line-up (4-3-3)

Steve Mandanda, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Ronald Zubar, Lorik Cana, Laurent Bonnart, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Benoît Cheyrou, Charles Kabore, Samir Nasri, Djibril Cissé, André Ayew