Olympique Marseille 3-1 Valenciennes: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 19 January 2008
Result
Olympique Marseille 3-1 Valenciennes
Ligue 1 · Saturday 19 January 2008, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Olympique Marseille 3-1 Valenciennes: match report
Olympique Marseille beat Valenciennes 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 19 January 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.
Djibril Cissé opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Djibril Cissé (28'), Julien Rodriguez (51') and Djibril Cissé (74'). Valenciennes scored through Johan Audel (82').
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received no yellow cards; Valenciennes received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 11th on 25 points from 20 and Valenciennes 4th on 32 points from 20. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 3rd with 62 points, and Valenciennes 13th with 45.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-5-1 and Valenciennes in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Olympique Marseille win, 1 draw and 1 for Valenciennes.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read L-W-D-W-D and Valenciennes's W-L-W-D-W.
Key events
- 8'Yellow card · S. Roudet
- 28'Goal · Djibril Cissé
- 51'Goal · Julien Rodriguez
- 74'Goal · Djibril Cissé
- 82'Goal · Johan Audel
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Marseille line-up (4-5-1)
Steve Mandanda, Julien Rodriguez, Lorik Cana, Juan Krupoviesa, Laurent Bonnart, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Kanga Akale, Benoît Cheyrou, Samir Nasri, Mathieu Valbuena, Djibril Cissé
Valenciennes line-up (4-4-2)
Nicolas Penneteau, David Sommeil, Mody Traoré, Williams Martínez Fracchia, Johan Audel, Sébastien Roudet, José Saez, Filip Sebo, David Ducourtioux, Geoffrey Doumeng, Djamel Belmadi