Olympique Marseille 2-1 Caen: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 4 October 2008

Result

Olympique Marseille 2-1 Caen

Ligue 1 · Saturday 4 October 2008, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Olympique Marseille · Caen · Ligue 1 predictions

Olympique Marseille 2-1 Caen: match report

Olympique Marseille won against Caen 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 4 October 2008. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Hatem Ben Arfa opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Hatem Ben Arfa (2') and Mamadou Niang (60'). Caen scored through Steve Savidan (20').

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Caen received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 3rd on 13 points from 7 and Caen 5th on 11 points from 7. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 2nd with 77 points, and Caen 18th with 37.

Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-4-2 and Caen in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Olympique Marseille wins, 0 draws and 0 for Caen.

Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read D-D-D-W-W and Caen's W-D-W-L-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Hatem Ben ArfaOlympique Marseille · 1-0
  • 20'Goal · Steve SavidanCaen · 1-1
  • 31'Yellow card · Ronald ZubarOlympique Marseille
  • 44'Yellow card · Pablo BarzolaCaen
  • 60'Goal · Mamadou NiangOlympique Marseille · 2-1
  • 66'Yellow card · Karim ZianiOlympique Marseille
  • 70'Second yellow · Karim ZianiOlympique Marseille
  • 79'Yellow card · Vincent PlantéCaen
  • 80'Yellow card · Lorik CanaOlympique Marseille

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Olympique Marseille 2, draws 0, Caen 0.

Team news

Olympique Marseille expected line-up (4-4-2)

Steve Mandanda, Lorik Cana, Laurent Bonnart, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Benoît Cheyrou, Samir Nasri, Mathieu Valbuena, Mamadou Niang, Djibril Cissé

Caen expected line-up (4-4-2)

Vincent Planté, Jérémy Sorbon, Cédric Hengbart, Reynald Lemaître, Grégory Leca, Yoan Gouffran, Grégory Proment, Benjamin Nivet, Remi Gomis, Nicolas Florentin