Olympique Marseille 2-1 Ajax: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 12 March 2009
Result
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Ajax
Europa League · Thursday 12 March 2009, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-1
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Ajax: match report
Olympique Marseille won against Ajax 2-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 12 March 2009. The half-time score was 2-1.
Benoît Cheyrou opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Benoît Cheyrou (19') and Mamadou Niang (33'). Ajax scored through Luis Suárez (36', penalty).
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 3 yellow cards; Ajax received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 87th on 3 points from 2 and Ajax 11th on 17 points from 8. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Key events
- 19'Goal · Benoît Cheyrou
- 27'Yellow card · Thomas Vermaelen
- 32'Yellow card · Benoît Cheyrou
- 33'Goal · Mamadou Niang
- 36'Penalty goal · Luis Suárez
- 37'Yellow card · T. Taïwo
- 38'Yellow card · Gregory van der Wiel
- 42'Second yellow · Gregory van der Wiel
- 56'Yellow card · Modeste M'bami
- 87'Yellow card · Leonardo
Team news
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
Ajax expected line-up
Maarten Stekelenburg, Olaf Lindenbergh, Hatem Trabelsi, Zdenek Grygera, Steven Pienaar, Hedwiges Maduro, Tomas Galasek, Markus Rosenberg, Thomas Vermaelen, Nourdin Boukhari, Urby Emanuelson