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 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.
Key events
- 18'Yellow card · Nicolas N'Koulou
- 19'Yellow card · Alaixys Romao
- 33'Red card · Lamine Koné
- 72'Yellow card · Fabien Audard
- 77'Goal · Innocent Emeghara
- 84'Goal · Mathieu Valbuena
- 85'Yellow card · Innocent Emeghara
- 90+3'Second yellow · Alaixys Romao
- 90+4'Goal · Benoît Cheyrou
Head-to-head
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