Olympique Marseille 2-1 Caen: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 4 October 2008
Result
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Caen
Ligue 1 · Saturday 4 October 2008, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Caen: match report
Olympique Marseille won against Caen 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 4 October 2008. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Hatem Ben Arfa opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Hatem Ben Arfa (2') and Mamadou Niang (60'). Caen scored through Steve Savidan (20').
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Caen received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 3rd on 13 points from 7 and Caen 5th on 11 points from 7. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 2nd with 77 points, and Caen 18th with 37.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-5-1 and Caen in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Olympique Marseille wins, 0 draws and 0 for Caen.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read D-D-D-W-W and Caen's W-D-W-L-D.
Key events
- 2'Goal · Hatem Ben Arfa
- 20'Goal · Steve Savidan
- 31'Yellow card · Ronald Zubar
- 44'Yellow card · Pablo Barzola
- 60'Goal · Mamadou Niang
- 66'Yellow card · Karim Ziani
- 70'Second yellow · Karim Ziani
- 79'Yellow card · Vincent Planté
- 80'Yellow card · Lorik Cana
Head-to-head
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
Caen expected line-up (4-4-2)
Vincent Planté, Jérémy Sorbon, Cédric Hengbart, Reynald Lemaître, Grégory Leca, Yoan Gouffran, Grégory Proment, Benjamin Nivet, Remi Gomis, Nicolas Florentin