Olympique Marseille 2-0 Caen: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 7 October 2018

Result

Olympique Marseille 2-0 Caen

Ligue 1 · Sunday 7 October 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Olympique Marseille · Caen · Ligue 1 predictions

Olympique Marseille 2-0 Caen: match report

Olympique Marseille won against Caen 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 7 October 2018. The half-time score was 2-0.

Konstantinos Mitroglou opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Konstantinos Mitroglou (36') and F. Thauvin (45'). Caen did not score.

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 3 yellow cards; Caen received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 7th on 13 points from 8 and Caen 12th on 10 points from 8. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 5th with 61 points, and Caen 19th with 33.

Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Caen in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Florian Thauvin of Olympique Marseille (9.0), ahead of Dimitri Payet (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Olympique Marseille wins, 1 draw and 2 for Caen.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 26'Yellow card · E. CrivelliCaen
  • 36'Goal · Konstantinos MitroglouOlympique Marseille · 1-0
  • 45'Goal · F. ThauvinOlympique Marseille · 2-0
  • 45+5'Yellow card · C. NingaCaen
  • 66'Yellow card · P. BaysseCaen
  • 66'Yellow card · F. GuilbertCaen
  • 66'Yellow card · Luiz GustavoOlympique Marseille
  • 66'Yellow card · Dimitri PayetOlympique Marseille
  • 75'Yellow card · Lucas OcamposOlympique Marseille
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Alexander DjikuCaen

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Olympique Marseille 7, draws 1, Caen 2.

Team news

Olympique Marseille line-up (4-2-3-1)

Steve Mandanda, Bouna Sarr, Adil Rami, Boubacar Kamara, Hiroki Sakai, Kevin Strootman, Luiz Gustavo, Florian Thauvin, Dimitri Payet, Lucas Ocampos, Konstantinos Mitroglou

Caen line-up (4-2-3-1)

Brice Samba, Frédéric Guilbert, Paul Baysse, Alexander Djiku, Yoël Armougom, Prince Oniangué, Stef Peeters, Claudio Beauvue, Fayçal Fajr, Casimir Ninga, E. Crivelli