Auxerre 0-2 Olympique Marseille: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 10 January 2009
Result
Auxerre 0-2 Olympique Marseille
Ligue 1 · Saturday 10 January 2009, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Auxerre 0-2 Olympique Marseille: match report
Auxerre lost to Olympique Marseille 0-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 10 January 2009. The half-time score was 0-1.
M. Samassa opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Auxerre did not score. Olympique Marseille scored through M. Samassa (43') and Mathieu Valbuena (77').
Discipline: Auxerre received 2 yellow cards; Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Auxerre were 15th on 20 points from 19 and Olympique Marseille 5th on 32 points from 19. Auxerre went on to finish that season 8th with 55 points, and Olympique Marseille 2nd with 77.
Auxerre lined up in a 5-4-1 and Olympique Marseille in a 4-3-1-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Auxerre win, 0 draws and 6 for Olympique Marseille.
Going into the match Auxerre's last five read L-L-D-L-L and Olympique Marseille's L-D-W-D-D.
Key events
- 30'Yellow card · Jean-Pascal Mignot
- 43'Goal · M. Samassa
- 69'Yellow card · Daniel Niculae
- 77'Goal · Mathieu Valbuena
- 90'Yellow card · Benoît Cheyrou
Head-to-head
Team news
Auxerre expected line-up (5-4-1)
Rémy Riou, Jean-Pascal Mignot, Jean-Sebastien Jaures, Sammy Traore, Stephane Grichting, Benoît Pedretti, Kamel Chafni, Kévin Lejeune, Thomas Kahlenberg, Daniel Niculae, Dennis Oliech
Olympique Marseille expected line-up (4-3-1-2)
Steve Mandanda, Lorik Cana, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Laurent Bonnart, Ronald Zubar, Karim Ziani, Mamadou Niang, Bakari Koné, Vitorino Hilton, Hatem Ben Arfa