Olympique Marseille 2-1 Auxerre: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 1 March 2008
Result
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Auxerre
Ligue 1 · Saturday 1 March 2008, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Auxerre: match report
Olympique Marseille beat Auxerre 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 1 March 2008. The half-time score was 2-0.
Lorik Cana opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Lorik Cana (7') and Djibril Cissé (22'). Auxerre scored through B. Pedretti (88').
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received no yellow cards; Auxerre received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 5th on 39 points from 26 and Auxerre 12th on 35 points from 26. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 3rd with 62 points, and Auxerre 15th with 44.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Auxerre in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Olympique Marseille wins, 0 draws and 1 for Auxerre.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read D-W-W-W-D and Auxerre's W-W-W-D-D.
Key events
- 7'Goal · Lorik Cana
- 22'Goal · Djibril Cissé
- 40'Yellow card · Jean-Pascal Mignot
- 68'Yellow card · Jean-Sebastien Jaures
- 84'Yellow card · Gabriel Tamaş
- 88'Goal · B. Pedretti
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Marseille line-up (4-2-3-1)
Steve Mandanda, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Lorik Cana, Laurent Bonnart, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Kanga Akale, Benoît Cheyrou, Modeste M'bami, Samir Nasri, Mathieu Valbuena, Djibril Cissé
Auxerre line-up (4-4-2)
Rémy Riou, Stephane Grichting, Jean-Pascal Mignot, Gabriel Tamaş, Sammy Traore, Frédéric Thomas, Kévin Lejeune, Benoît Pedretti, Julien Quercia, Dennis Oliech, Daniel Niculae