📊 Form Guide

Marseille

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Marseille are hoping to win again after their last result, the 1-3 Ligue 1 success over Havre AC.

In that match, Marseille had 54% possession and 22 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Marseille, the goalscorers were Amine Gouiri (56', 99') and Mason Greenwood (85'). For their opponents, Havre AC got 10 shots at goal with 4 on target. Issa Soumaré (66') was the scorer for Havre AC.

It’s been all too rare in recent times that Marseille have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Marseille have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 9 goals in the process.

Heading into this fixture, Marseille are unbeaten in their previous 3 home league matches.

Rennes

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Rennes come into this encounter following on from a 2-0 Ligue 1 win versus Nice in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Rennes had 51% possession and 10 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for Rennes was Arnaud Kalimuendo (15', 80'). For their opponents, Nice had 14 shots at goal with 6 on target.

The stats tell the story, and Rennes have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 9 goals in all. Defensively, Rennes have been far from perfect. It will be interesting to see if that trend will be sustained here.

Their past results show that Rennes:

• have not won against Marseille in games played away from home for the previous 6 league matches. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 20/01/2023 tells us that Marseille have won 4 of these & Rennes 1, with the number of drawn games being 1.

A combined sum of 11 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for Les Olympiens and 4 for Rennes. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.83.

The last league fixture between these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 17 on 11/01/2025 and the score finished Rennes 1-2 Marseille.

In that game, Rennes had 36% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Arnaud Kalimuendo (43').

Marseille got 13 shots on goal with 7 on target. Mason Greenwood (45') and Adrien Rabiot (49') scored.

The referee was Abdelatif Kherradji.

🗞️ Team News: Marseille

It looks as if Les Olympiens should make use of the 4-2-3-1 system for this one, beginning the first half with Geronimo Rulli, Michael Murillo, Leonardo Balerdi, Derek Cornelius, Ulisses Garcia, Valentin Rongier, P. Hoejbjerg, Mason Greenwood, Adrien Rabiot, Jonathan Rowe and Amine Gouiri.

🗞️ Team News: Rennes

Owing to an otherwise full-strength group of players, there’s only the sole fitness problem for the Rennes boss Habib Beye to be concerned about. Alidu Seidu (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be playing here.

It’s our belief that Rennes seem likely to elect for a 3-4-2-1 system, going with Brice Samba, Jeremy Jacquet, Anthony Rouault, Lilian Brassier, Adrien Truffert, Djaoui Cisse, Ismael Kone, Mousa Tamari, Ludovic Blas, Azor Matusiwa and A. Kalimuendo-Muinga.

🔮 Prediction

We envisage that Rennes are dangerous enough to get a goal against this Marseille outfit, however that may not quite be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re tipping both teams to score in a 2-1 winning score for Marseille at full-time. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Peter Guest, 18:01 17/05/2025