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 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.
Key events
- 20'Yellow card · Y. Benalouane
- 21'Goal · Benoît Cheyrou
- 22'Goal · Bafétimbi Gomis
- 28'Yellow card · Bakari Koné
- 28'Yellow card · Efstathios Tavlaridis
- 29'Yellow card · Benoît Cheyrou
- 38'Penalty goal · Hatem Ben Arfa
- 71'Goal · T. Taïwo
- 82'Yellow card · Ronnie Kanalelo
- 90'Yellow card · Sébastien Grax
Head-to-head
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