Olympique Marseille 4-3 Strasbourg: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 17 May 2008
Result
Olympique Marseille 4-3 Strasbourg
Ligue 1 · Saturday 17 May 2008, 18:50 UTC · half-time 3-2
Olympique Marseille 4-3 Strasbourg: match report
Olympique Marseille defeated Strasbourg 4-3 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 17 May 2008. It was 3-2 at half-time.
Mamadou Niang opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Mamadou Niang (6'), Djibril Cissé (45+2'), Samir Nasri (45+5') and Djibril Cissé (78'). Strasbourg scored through James Fanchone (10'), Kévin Gameiro (19') and S. Zenke (72').
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card; Strasbourg received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 4th on 59 points from 37 and Strasbourg 19th on 35 points from 37. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 3rd with 62 points, and Strasbourg 19th with 35.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-5-1 and Strasbourg in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Olympique Marseille win, 2 draws and 0 for Strasbourg.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read D-L-W-L-W and Strasbourg's L-L-L-L-L.
Key events
- 6'Goal · Mamadou Niang
- 10'Goal · James Fanchone
- 19'Goal · Kévin Gameiro
- 21'Yellow card · Z. Szélesi
- 45+2'Goal · Djibril Cissé
- 45+5'Goal · Samir Nasri
- 56'Yellow card · Morgan Schneiderlin
- 72'Goal · S. Zenke
- 78'Goal · Djibril Cissé
- 79'Yellow card · Djibril Cissé
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Marseille line-up (4-5-1)
Steve Mandanda, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Ronald Zubar, Lorik Cana, Laurent Bonnart, Benoît Cheyrou, Modeste M'bami, Samir Nasri, Mathieu Valbuena, Djibril Cissé, Mamadou Niang
Strasbourg line-up (4-3-3)
Stephane Cassard, Manuel Dos Santos Fernandes, Pierre Ducrocq, Habib Bellaïd, Gregory Paisley, Rodrigo, Morgan Schneiderlin, Kévin Gameiro, Eric Mouloungui, James Fanchone, Zoltán Szélesi