Olympique Marseille 2-1 Nice: result and report

Olympique Marseille 2-1 Nice

Ligue 1 · Sunday 7 May 2017, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Olympique Marseille defeated Nice 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 7 May 2017. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Bafétimbi Gomis opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Bafétimbi Gomis (21') and Patrice Evra (66'). Nice scored through Mario Balotelli (50').

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 5 yellow cards; Nice received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 5th on 55 points from 35 and Nice 3rd on 77 points from 35. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 5th with 62 points, and Nice 3rd with 78.

Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-3-3 and Nice in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Patrice Evra of Olympique Marseille (8.6), ahead of Dimitri Payet (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Olympique Marseille wins, 2 draws and 6 for Nice.

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