Olympique Marseille 3-1 Nîmes: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 21 December 2019

Result

Olympique Marseille 3-1 Nîmes

Ligue 1 · Saturday 21 December 2019, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

Olympique Marseille · Nîmes · Ligue 1 predictions

Olympique Marseille 3-1 Nîmes: match report

Olympique Marseille defeated Nîmes 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 21 December 2019. The half-time score was 0-0.

Olympique Marseille's goals came from an own goal by S. Alakouch (46'), Darío Benedetto (65') and Dimitri Payet (81'). Nîmes scored through Anthony Briançon (90+2').

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 3 yellow cards; Nîmes received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 2nd on 35 points from 18 and Nîmes 20th on 12 points from 17. This fixture belongs to an earlier Ligue 1 season and is kept for reference.

Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-3-3 and Nîmes in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Zinedine Ferhat of Nîmes (8.7), ahead of Dimitri Payet (8.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Olympique Marseille win, 0 draws and 1 for Nîmes.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 26'Yellow card · Gaëtan PaquiezNîmes
  • 33'Yellow card · B. KamaraOlympique Marseille
  • 45+1'Yellow card · M. SansonOlympique Marseille
  • 45+3'Yellow card · Dimitri PayetOlympique Marseille
  • 46'Own goal · S. AlakouchOlympique Marseille · 1-0
  • 63'Yellow card · Sidy SarrNîmes
  • 65'Goal · Darío BenedettoOlympique Marseille · 2-0
  • 81'Goal · Dimitri PayetOlympique Marseille · 3-0
  • 90+2'Goal · Anthony BriançonNîmes · 3-1

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Olympique Marseille 1, draws 0, Nîmes 1.

Team news

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

Yohann Pelé, Hiroki Sakai, Álvaro González, Duje Caleta-Car, J. Amavi, Valentin Rongier, Boubacar Kamara, Morgan Sanson, Nemanja Radonjić, Darío Benedetto, Dimitri Payet

Nîmes line-up (4-4-2)

Paul Bernardoni, Sofiane Alakouch, Anthony Briançon, Pablo Martinez, Florian Miguel, Gaëtan Paquiez, Sidy Sarr, Théo Valls, Romain Philippoteaux, Zinedine Ferhat, Renaud Ripart