📏 Form Guide

Marseille

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Marseille will be wanting a better result here after a 3-0 Ligue 1 defeat last time out to Monaco.

In that match, Marseille had 59% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 4 on target. On the other side, Monaco got 15 shots at goal with 10 on target. Takumi Minamino (34'), Breel Embolo (58') and Denis Zakaria (82') scored for Monaco.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Marseille have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Marseille have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 12 goals during that time.

Heading into this contest, Marseille are unbeaten in the league by Montpellier in their previous 11 matches. Quite a long unbeaten run against them.

Montpellier

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Angers SCO in Ligue 1 action, Montpellier will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Montpellier had 63% possession and 5 shots on goal with 2 on target. Angers had 10 shots on goal with 4 on target. Esteban Lepaul (2', 43') was the scorer for Angers SCO.

For 5 of the prior 6 clashes featuring Montpellier, a notably low volume of goals have been hit between them and opposing sides. The overall average goals scored per game during that period comes out as just 2, with the average goals for La Paillade being 0. While that may be of interest, we must now wait to see if that trend will be sustained here in this match.

Pre-game facts show that Montpellier:

• have not won against Marseille when they've played them away from home in the last 9 league matches. A very poor run of away results.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 5 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their prior head to head clashes going back to 02/01/2023 tells us that Marseille have won 3 of these games and Montpellier 0, with the tally of drawn results standing at 3.

A sum of 17 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 13 from Les Olympiens and 4 belonging to La Paillade. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

ℹ️ Team News: Marseille

We are thinking that Les Olympiens look set to make use of the 4-4-2 system, handing starts to Geronimo Rulli, Michael Murillo, Geoffrey Kondogbia, Ulisses Garcia, Luis Henrique, Valentin Rongier, P. Hoejbjerg, Quentin Merlin, Mason Greenwood, Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe.

🗞️ Team News: Montpellier

We believe La Paillade might make use of a 3-2-4-1 formation, starting Benjamin Lecomte, Kiki Kouyate, Becir Omeragic, Modibo Sagnan, W. Ndollo Bille, Theo Sainte-Luce, Nicolas Pays, Joris Chotard, Jordan Ferri, Khalil Fayad and Tanguy Coulibaly.

💭 Prediction

It’s pretty clear that Montpellier may well find it hard to put one past a Marseille outfit who will likely own this match if all goes as we expect it to.

We’re therefore predicting a very comfortable 3-0 margin for Marseille at the end of the game.

Lucas Pereira, 19:08 19/04/2025