Olympique Marseille 2-1 Lens: result and report
Ligue 1 · Sunday 2 November 2014
Result
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Lens
Ligue 1 · Sunday 2 November 2014, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Lens: match report
Olympique Marseille defeated Lens 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 2 November 2014. The half-time score was 1-1.
Nicolas N'Koulou opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Nicolas N'Koulou (10') and F. Thauvin (60'). Lens scored through Baptiste Guillaume (31').
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Lens received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 1st on 25 points from 11 and Lens 16th on 11 points from 11. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 3rd with 71 points, and Lens 19th with 29.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 3-4-3 and Lens in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Olympique Marseille wins, 4 draws and 3 for Lens.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read L-W-W-W-W and Lens's W-L-L-D-L.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Nicolas N'Koulou
- 23'Yellow card · Alaixys Romao
- 31'Goal · Baptiste Guillaume
- 60'Goal · F. Thauvin
- 72'Yellow card · Benjamin Mendy
- 76'Second yellow · Alaixys Romao
- 79'Yellow card · Pierrick Valdivia
- 81'Yellow card · Giannelli Imbula
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Marseille expected line-up (3-4-3)
Steve Mandanda, Nicolas N'Koulou, Jérémy Morel, Jacques-Alaixys Romao, Benjamin Mendy, Giannelli Imbula, Florian Thauvin, Brice Dja Djédjé, André Ayew, Dimitri Payet, André-Pierre Gignac
Lens expected line-up (4-3-3)
Rudy Riou, Ludovic Baal, Loïck Landre, Dimitri Cavaré, Pierrick Valdivia, Jerome Le Moigne, Wylan Cyprien, Yoann Touzghar, Pablo Chavarría, Ahmed Kantari