Valenciennes 1-3 Olympique Marseille: result and report
Ligue 1 · Sunday 19 October 2008
Result
Valenciennes 1-3 Olympique Marseille
Ligue 1 · Sunday 19 October 2008, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Valenciennes 1-3 Olympique Marseille: match report
Valenciennes lost to Olympique Marseille 1-3 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 19 October 2008. The half-time score was 0-1.
Bakari Koné opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Valenciennes's goal came from Grégory Pujol (81'). Olympique Marseille scored through Bakari Koné (13'), Hatem Ben Arfa (73') and Charles Kaboré (90').
Discipline: Valenciennes received 3 yellow cards; Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Valenciennes were 17th on 7 points from 8 and Olympique Marseille 5th on 16 points from 8. Valenciennes went on to finish that season 12th with 44 points, and Olympique Marseille 2nd with 77.
Valenciennes lined up in a 4-4-2 and Olympique Marseille in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Valenciennes win, 1 draw and 2 for Olympique Marseille.
Going into the match Valenciennes's last five read L-L-L-D-L and Olympique Marseille's W-D-D-D-W.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Bakari Koné
- 44'Yellow card · J. Lacourt
- 44'Yellow card · Mathieu Valbuena
- 69'Yellow card · D. Ducourtioux
- 73'Goal · Hatem Ben Arfa
- 77'Yellow card · Jacques Abardonado
- 81'Goal · Grégory Pujol
- 90'Goal · Charles Kaboré
Head-to-head
Team news
Valenciennes expected line-up (4-4-2)
Nicolas Penneteau, Guillaume Rippert, Mody Traoré, Carlos Sánchez, Sébastien Roudet, Johan Audel, Jeovânio, Steve Savidan, Éric Chelle, A. Ouaddou, Geoffrey Doumeng
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