Olympique Marseille 3-1 Rennes: result and report
Ligue 1 · Sunday 2 September 2012
Result
Olympique Marseille 3-1 Rennes
Ligue 1 · Sunday 2 September 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Olympique Marseille 3-1 Rennes: match report
Olympique Marseille defeated Rennes 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 2 September 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.
J. Morel opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from J. Morel (35'), A. Gignac (84') and an own goal by Romain Danzé (90+4'). Rennes scored through Julien Féret (57').
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 2 yellow cards; Rennes received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 2nd on 9 points from 3 and Rennes 17th on 3 points from 3. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 4th with 65 points, and Rennes 11th with 50.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Rennes in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Olympique Marseille wins, 4 draws and 2 for Rennes.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read W-W-W and Rennes's W-L-L.
Key events
- 6'Yellow card · A. Gignac
- 6'Yellow card · Vincent Pajot
- 35'Goal · J. Morel
- 57'Goal · Julien Féret
- 71'Yellow card · J. Morel
- 84'Goal · A. Gignac
- 90+3'Yellow card · Yann M'Vila
- 90+4'Own goal · Romain Danzé
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Marseille line-up (4-2-3-1)
Steve Mandanda, Kassim Abdallah Mfoihaia, Nicolas N'Koulou, Jérémy Morel, Rod Fanni, Benoît Cheyrou, Morgan Amalfitano, Charles Kabore, Mathieu Valbuena, André-Pierre Gignac, André Ayew
Rennes line-up (4-2-3-1)
Benoît Costil, Kévin Théophile-Catherine, Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik, John Boye, Romain Danzé, Julien Féret, Yann M'Vila, Vincent Pajot, Jonathan Pitroipa, Mevlüt Erdinç, Romain Alessandrini