📊 Form Guide

Marseille

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Marseille are hoping to win again following a 5-1 Ligue 1 victory over Montpellier.

In that game, Marseille had 68% possession and 17 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For Marseille, the goalscorers were Mason Greenwood (8', 67'), Jonathan Rowe (74') and Adrien Rabiot (90'). Montpellier had 6 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Wilfried Ndollo Bille (60' Own goal) and Lucas Mincarelli (83') scored for Montpellier.

At least three goals per game were seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Marseille have been involved. Their opponents scored 13 times in these games whereas Marseille managed to get a total of 10.

Ahead of this meeting, Marseille are undefeated in their last 2 home league matches.

Brest

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against RC Lens in Ligue 1 action, Brest and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Brest had 44% possession and 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for Brest was Pierre Lees-Melou (13'). Lens got 17 attempts on goal with 9 on target. Goduine Koyalipou (17'), Neil El Aynaoui (45') and Wesley Saïd (90') scored for RC Lens.

Demonstrating their fondness for high-scoring matches, goals have been scored 21 times in the prior 6 games in which Brest have taken to the pitch, yielding an average of 3.5 goals for each meeting. Opposing teams have hit 9 of this grand total. We will have to see if that trend will be sustained here.

Coming into this meeting, Brest haven't been defeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head meetings going back to 13/03/2022 shows that Marseille have won 3 of these games & Brest 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

An aggregate of 19 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 13 of them for Les Olympiens and 6 belonging to Les Ty' Zefs. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The last league match featuring these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 1 on 17/08/2024 when it ended Brest 1-5 Marseille.

In that game, Brest had 50% possession and 10 shots on goal with 7 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Mahdi Camara (45').

Marseille got 7 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Mason Greenwood (3', 31'), Luis Henrique (26', 48') and Elye Wahi (69') scored.

The referee was Benoît Bastien.

📋 Team News: Marseille

It looks as if Les Olympiens could employ a 4-4-2 formation for the game, handing starts to Geronimo Rulli, Michael Murillo, Geoffrey Kondogbia, Leonardo Balerdi, Luis Henrique, P. Hoejbjerg, Valentin Rongier, Ulisses Garcia, Mason Greenwood, Adrien Rabiot and Amine Gouiri.

📰 Team News: Brest

Brest manager Éric Roy has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Soumaïla Coulibaly (Adductor pain), Bradley Locko (Achilles tendon rupture), Ibrahim Salah (Foot injury) and Justin Bourgault (Toe injury) miss out here.

There’s a good chance that Les Ty' Zefs seem most likely to begin the game with a 4-3-3 system, starting the game with Gregoire Coudert, Kenny Lala, Brendan Chardonnet, Julien Le Cardinal, Massadio Haidara, Mahdi Camara, Pierre Lees-Melou, Hugo Magnetti, Mathias Pereira-Lage, Ludovic Ajorque and Abdallah Sima.

⚡ Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Brest should have enough to score against this Marseille team, although that possibly won’t be as many as they will have scored against them.

We can see a narrow 2-1 winning score for Marseille at full-time. Hopefully this is a good one.

Renata Leite, 18:03 27/04/2025