FC Lorient vs Marseille Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

FC Lorient

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FC Lorient will play in this game coming off the back of a 0-0 Ligue 1 drawn match vs Marseille.

It has not been often in recent times that FC Lorient haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that FC Lorient have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 16 goals in the process.

Going into this contest, FC Lorient have not registered a win against Marseille in their last 7 league matches.

Marseille

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In the course of their 6 previous matches, Jorge Sampaoli's Marseille have turned their attacks into goals 7 times, yielding them a goals per game average of 1.17.

Coming into this clash, Marseille have not lost to FC Lorient when they've played them away from home in the last 6 league matches. Away fans have certainly had plenty to cheer about.

↔️ Head to head

Delving into past results between these clubs stretching back to 12/03/2016 reveals that these fixtures have not been good ones for FC Lorient. They have not managed to come away with any wins at all while Marseille have simply been better than them, running out winners in 83 per cent of those matches.

A sum of 20 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 5 of them for Les Merlus and 15 coming from Les Olympiens. That is an average goals per game value of 3.33.

The last league fixture featuring these clubs was Ligue 1 match day 10 on 17/10/2021 when it ended Marseille 4-1 FC Lorient.

In that game, Marseille managed 66% possession and 16 shots at goal with 6 on target. The goals were scored by Boubacar Kamara (27'), Mattéo Guendouzi (56', 92') and Arkadiusz Milik (85').

FC Lorient had 15 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Armand Laurienté (13') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Antony Gautier.

📰 Team News: FC Lorient

The FC Lorient boss Christophe Pélissier will be grateful to have no fitness concerns at all ahead of this game with a fully injury-free squad ready to go.

We think that Les Merlus will probably employ a 3-5-2 system for this one with Matthieu Dreyer, Houboulang Mendes, Julien Laporte, Jeremy Morel, Igor Carioca, Enzo Le Fee, Fabien Lemoine, Laurent Abergel, Vincent Le Goff, Terem Moffi and Armand Lauriente.

🗞️ Team News: Marseille

Marseille manager Jorge Sampaoli has some current player fitness concerns. Dimitri Payet (Calf Problems), Konrad de la Fuente (Arthroscopie) and Leonardo Balerdi (Shoulder Injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

From our viewpoint, Les Olympiens appear most likely to begin the game with a 3-2-4-1 formation, settling for Steve Mandanda, William Saliba, Duje Caleta-Car, Luan Peres, Valentin Rongier, Boubacar Kamara, Cengiz Under, Matteo Guendouzi, Pape Gueye, Gerson and Cedric Bakambu.

💭 Prediction

Our feeling is that FC Lorient may find it difficult to find the net against this Marseille lineup who we think will manage to score & go ahead.

Our tip is therefore for a very even match with a 0-1 victory for Marseille when the full-time whistle blows.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

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Peter Guest, 00:32 04/05/2022