Nice 1-3 Olympique Marseille: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 5 December 2009
Result
Nice 1-3 Olympique Marseille
Ligue 1 · Saturday 5 December 2009, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Nice 1-3 Olympique Marseille: match report
Nice lost to Olympique Marseille 1-3 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 5 December 2009. The half-time score was 1-1.
Mamadou Niang opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Nice's goal came from Kafoumba Coulibaly (33'). Olympique Marseille scored through Mamadou Niang (19'), Lucho González (77') and Bakari Koné (86').
Discipline: Nice received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Olympique Marseille received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nice were 11th on 20 points from 14 and Olympique Marseille 8th on 22 points from 13. Nice went on to finish that season 15th with 44 points, and Olympique Marseille 1st with 78.
Nice lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Olympique Marseille in a 4-1-4-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Nice wins, 0 draws and 6 for Olympique Marseille.
Going into the match Nice's last five read L-W-W-W-W and Olympique Marseille's L-W-D-D-W.
Key events
- 16'Yellow card · Benoît Cheyrou
- 19'Goal · Mamadou Niang
- 33'Goal · Kafoumba Coulibaly
- 36'Yellow card · D. Diakité
- 38'Yellow card · Larrys Mabiala
- 44'Red card · Onyekachi Apam
- 71'Yellow card · Brandão
- 77'Goal · Lucho González
- 86'Goal · Bakari Koné
- 90'Yellow card · Mahamane Traore
Head-to-head
Team news
Nice line-up (4-2-3-1)
David Ospina, Onyekachi Apam, Larrys Mabiala, Ismael Gace, Drissa Diakite, Gregory Paisley, David Hellebuyck, Emerse Fae, Kafoumba Coulibaly, Anthony Mounier, Mamadou Bagayoko
Olympique Marseille expected line-up (4-1-4-1)
Steve Mandanda, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Laurent Bonnart, Souleymane Diawara, Benoît Cheyrou, Fabrice Abriel, Mathieu Valbuena, Mamadou Niang, Vitorino Hilton, Mehmet Yozgatlı