Olympique Marseille 4-2 Montpellier: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 19 September 2009

Result

Olympique Marseille 4-2 Montpellier

Ligue 1 · Saturday 19 September 2009, 19:00 UTC · half-time 3-0

Olympique Marseille · Montpellier · Ligue 1 predictions

Olympique Marseille 4-2 Montpellier: match report

Olympique Marseille defeated Montpellier 4-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 19 September 2009. The half-time score was 3-0.

Lucho González opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Lucho González (31'), Mamadou Niang (34'), Edouard Cisse (39') and Souleymane Diawara (50'). Montpellier scored through Younès Belhanda (75') and Souleymane Camara (87', penalty).

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received no yellow cards; Montpellier received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 6th on 11 points from 5 and Montpellier 5th on 11 points from 5. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 1st with 78 points, and Montpellier 5th with 67.

Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Montpellier in a 4-3-3.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Yellow card · A. CostaMontpellier
  • 31'Goal · Lucho GonzálezOlympique Marseille · 1-0
  • 34'Goal · Mamadou NiangOlympique Marseille · 2-0
  • 39'Goal · Edouard CisseOlympique Marseille · 3-0
  • 50'Goal · Souleymane DiawaraOlympique Marseille · 4-0
  • 75'Goal · Younès BelhandaMontpellier · 4-1
  • 80'Yellow card · Younès BelhandaMontpellier
  • 87'Penalty goal · Souleymane CamaraMontpellier · 4-2
  • 90'Yellow card · Mapou Yanga-MbiwaMontpellier

Team news

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

Steve Mandanda, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Laurent Bonnart, Lorik Cana, Ronald Zubar, Benoît Cheyrou, Mamadou Niang, Bakari Koné, Vitorino Hilton, Hatem Ben Arfa, Karim Ziani

Montpellier line-up (4-3-3)

Geoffrey Jourdren, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Emir Spahić, Joris Marveaux, Geoffrey Dernis, Tino Costa, Younès Belhanda, Victor Hugo Montano, Nenad Dzodic, Romain Pitau, Cyril Jeunechamp