Olympique Marseille 2-0 Rennes: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 February 2017
Result
Olympique Marseille 2-0 Rennes
Ligue 1 · Saturday 18 February 2017, 16:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Olympique Marseille 2-0 Rennes: match report
Olympique Marseille defeated Rennes 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 18 February 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Clinton N'Jie opened the scoring in the 59th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Clinton N'Jie (59') and F. Thauvin (64'). Rennes did not score.
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card; Rennes received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 6th on 36 points from 25 and Rennes 10th on 33 points from 25. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 5th with 62 points, and Rennes 10th with 50.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-3-3 and Rennes in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Grégory Sertic of Olympique Marseille (8.2), ahead of Florian Thauvin (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Olympique Marseille wins, 2 draws and 4 for Rennes.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read L-W-L-W-L and Rennes's D-D-D-D-D.
Key events
- 59'Goal · Clinton N'Jie
- 61'Yellow card · William Vainqueur
- 64'Goal · F. Thauvin
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Marseille line-up (4-3-3)
Yohann Pelé, Akio Kogiku, Grégory Sertic, Patrice Evra, Frank Anguissa, Morgan Sanson, William Vainqueur, Maxime Lopez, Dimitri Payet, Clinton N'Jie, Florian Thauvin
Rennes line-up (4-4-2)
Benoît Costil, Pedro Mendes, Ludovic Baal, Romain Danzé, Joris Gnagnon, Clément Chantôme, Morgan Amalfitano, Benjamin André, Sanjin Prcić, Firmin Ndombe Mubele, Giovanni-Guy Yann Sio