Olympique Marseille 4-0 Auxerre: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 17 August 2008

Result

Olympique Marseille 4-0 Auxerre

Ligue 1 · Sunday 17 August 2008, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Olympique Marseille · Auxerre · Ligue 1 predictions

Olympique Marseille 4-0 Auxerre: match report

Olympique Marseille defeated Auxerre 4-0 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 17 August 2008. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Mamadou Niang opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Mamadou Niang (17'), an own goal by Stephane Grichting (63'), E. Grandin (76') and Boudewijn Zenden (86'). Auxerre did not score.

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card; Auxerre received 1 yellow card.

Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 2nd with 77 points, and Auxerre 8th with 55.

Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-5-1 and Auxerre in a 5-4-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Olympique Marseille wins, 0 draws and 1 for Auxerre.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Mamadou NiangOlympique Marseille · 1-0
  • 49'Yellow card · Dariusz DudkaAuxerre
  • 63'Own goal · Stephane GrichtingOlympique Marseille · 2-0
  • 72'Yellow card · Karim ZianiOlympique Marseille
  • 76'Goal · E. GrandinOlympique Marseille · 3-0
  • 86'Goal · Boudewijn ZendenOlympique Marseille · 4-0

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Olympique Marseille 5, draws 0, Auxerre 1.

Team news

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

Auxerre expected line-up (5-4-1)

Rémy Riou, Jean-Pascal Mignot, Jean-Sebastien Jaures, Sammy Traore, Stephane Grichting, Benoît Pedretti, Kamel Chafni, Kévin Lejeune, Thomas Kahlenberg, Daniel Niculae, Dennis Oliech