Olympique Marseille 5-1 Montpellier: result and report

Olympique Marseille 5-1 Montpellier

Ligue 1 · Friday 27 January 2017, 19:45 UTC · half-time 3-0

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Olympique Marseille defeated Montpellier 5-1 in Ligue 1 on Friday 27 January 2017. It was 3-0 at half-time.

Bafétimbi Gomis opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Bafétimbi Gomis (4'), Bafétimbi Gomis (19'), Akio Kogiku (38'), Bafétimbi Gomis (77') and F. Thauvin (88', penalty). Montpellier scored through Ryad Boudebouz (49').

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card; Montpellier received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 7th on 30 points from 21 and Montpellier 13th on 23 points from 21. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 5th with 62 points, and Montpellier 15th with 39.

Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-3-3 and Montpellier in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Bafétimbi Gomis of Olympique Marseille (9.9), ahead of Rémy Cabella (9.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Olympique Marseille wins, 2 draws and 3 for Montpellier.