Olympique Marseille 2-0 Saint-Étienne: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 9 March 2008

Result

Olympique Marseille 2-0 Saint-Étienne

Ligue 1 · Sunday 9 March 2008, 17:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Olympique Marseille · Saint-Étienne · Ligue 1 predictions

Olympique Marseille 2-0 Saint-Étienne: match report

Olympique Marseille defeated Saint-Étienne 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 9 March 2008. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Mathieu Valbuena opened the scoring in the 59th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Mathieu Valbuena (59') and T. Taïwo (66'). Saint-Étienne did not score.

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card; Saint-Étienne received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 4th on 42 points from 27 and Saint-Étienne 11th on 36 points from 27. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 3rd with 62 points, and Saint-Étienne 5th with 58.

Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-5-1 and Saint-Étienne in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Olympique Marseille wins, 0 draws and 2 for Saint-Étienne.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Yellow card · IlanSaint-Étienne
  • 35'Yellow card · Karim ZianiOlympique Marseille
  • 39'Yellow card · Efstathios TavlaridisSaint-Étienne
  • 59'Goal · Mathieu ValbuenaOlympique Marseille · 1-0
  • 66'Goal · T. TaïwoOlympique Marseille · 2-0
  • 68'Yellow card · Siaka TiénéSaint-Étienne

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Olympique Marseille 3, draws 0, Saint-Étienne 2.

Team news

Olympique Marseille line-up (4-5-1)

Steve Mandanda, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Ronald Zubar, Lorik Cana, Laurent Bonnart, Kanga Akale, Karim Ziani, Benoît Cheyrou, Modeste M'bami, Samir Nasri, Djibril Cissé

Saint-Étienne line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jody Viviani, Stathis Tavlaridis, Siaka Tiéné, Mouhamadou Dabo, Loïc Perrin, Yohan Benalouane, Geoffrey Dernis, Pascal Feindouno, Christophe Landrin, Ilan, Blaise Matuidi