Olympique Marseille 2-1 Lorient: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 17 December 2011

Result

Olympique Marseille 2-1 Lorient

Ligue 1 · Saturday 17 December 2011, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Olympique Marseille · Lorient · Ligue 1 predictions

Olympique Marseille 2-1 Lorient: match report

Olympique Marseille defeated Lorient 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 17 December 2011. The half-time score was 0-0.

Innocent Emeghara opened the scoring in the 77th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Mathieu Valbuena (84') and Benoît Cheyrou (90+4'). Lorient scored through Innocent Emeghara (77').

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card; Lorient received 3 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 8th on 25 points from 17 and Lorient 9th on 23 points from 17. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 10th with 48 points, and Lorient 17th with 39.

Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-4-2 and Lorient in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Olympique Marseille wins, 3 draws and 3 for Lorient.

Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read D-W-W-L-W and Lorient's L-L-W-L-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Yellow card · Nicolas N'KoulouOlympique Marseille
  • 19'Yellow card · Alaixys RomaoLorient
  • 33'Red card · Lamine KonéLorient
  • 72'Yellow card · Fabien AudardLorient
  • 77'Goal · Innocent EmegharaLorient · 0-1
  • 84'Goal · Mathieu ValbuenaOlympique Marseille · 1-1
  • 85'Yellow card · Innocent EmegharaLorient
  • 90+3'Second yellow · Alaixys RomaoLorient
  • 90+4'Goal · Benoît CheyrouOlympique Marseille · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Olympique Marseille 4, draws 3, Lorient 3.

Team news

Olympique Marseille line-up (4-4-2)

Steve Mandanda, César Azpilicueta, Nicolas N'Koulou, Jérémy Morel, Souleymane Diawara, Morgan Amalfitano, Mathieu Valbuena, Loïc Rémy, Jordan Ayew, Alou Diarra, Mehmet Yozgatlı

Lorient line-up (4-4-2)

Fabien Audard, Lamine Koné, Bruno Ecuele Manga, Lucas Mareque, Maxine Baca, Jacques-Alaixys Romao, Arnold Mvuemba, Mathieu Coutadeur, Luis Díaz, Kévin Monnet-Paquet, Joel Campbell