Olympique Marseille 3-1 Saint-Étienne: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 1 November 2008

Result

Olympique Marseille 3-1 Saint-Étienne

Ligue 1 · Saturday 1 November 2008, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

Olympique Marseille · Saint-Étienne · Ligue 1 predictions

Olympique Marseille 3-1 Saint-Étienne: match report

Olympique Marseille won against Saint-Étienne 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 1 November 2008. The half-time score was 2-1.

Benoît Cheyrou opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Benoît Cheyrou (21'), Hatem Ben Arfa (38', penalty) and T. Taïwo (71'). Saint-Étienne scored through Bafétimbi Gomis (22').

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 2 yellow cards; Saint-Étienne received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 4th on 20 points from 11 and Saint-Étienne 17th on 10 points from 11. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 2nd with 77 points, and Saint-Étienne 17th with 40.

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 4 Olympique Marseille wins, 0 draws and 2 for Saint-Étienne.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Yellow card · Y. BenalouaneSaint-Étienne
  • 21'Goal · Benoît CheyrouOlympique Marseille · 1-0
  • 22'Goal · Bafétimbi GomisSaint-Étienne · 1-1
  • 28'Yellow card · Bakari KonéOlympique Marseille
  • 28'Yellow card · Efstathios TavlaridisSaint-Étienne
  • 29'Yellow card · Benoît CheyrouOlympique Marseille
  • 38'Penalty goal · Hatem Ben ArfaOlympique Marseille · 2-1
  • 71'Goal · T. TaïwoOlympique Marseille · 3-1
  • 82'Yellow card · Ronnie KanaleloSaint-Étienne
  • 90'Yellow card · Sébastien GraxSaint-Étienne

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Olympique Marseille 4, draws 0, Saint-Étienne 2.

Team news

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

Steve Mandanda, Laurent Bonnart, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Lorik Cana, Julien Rodriguez, Ronald Zubar, Modeste M'bami, Samir Nasri, Benoît Cheyrou, Djibril Cissé, Mamadou Niang

Saint-Étienne expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jody Viviani, Stathis Tavlaridis, Loïc Perrin, Mouhamadou Dabo, Moustapha Bayal Sall, Christophe Landrin, Pascal Feindouno, Dimitri Payet, Geoffrey Dernis, Bafétimbi Gomis, Blaise Matuidi