Olympique Marseille 2-0 Saint-Étienne: result and report
Ligue 1 · Sunday 9 March 2008
Result
Olympique Marseille 2-0 Saint-Étienne
Ligue 1 · Sunday 9 March 2008, 17:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Olympique Marseille 2-0 Saint-Étienne: match report
Olympique Marseille defeated Saint-Étienne 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 9 March 2008. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Mathieu Valbuena opened the scoring in the 59th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Mathieu Valbuena (59') and T. Taïwo (66'). Saint-Étienne did not score.
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card; Saint-Étienne received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 4th on 42 points from 27 and Saint-Étienne 11th on 36 points from 27. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 3rd with 62 points, and Saint-Étienne 5th with 58.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-5-1 and Saint-Étienne in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Olympique Marseille wins, 0 draws and 2 for Saint-Étienne.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read W-D-W-W-W and Saint-Étienne's D-W-W-L-D.
Key events
- 4'Yellow card · Ilan
- 35'Yellow card · Karim Ziani
- 39'Yellow card · Efstathios Tavlaridis
- 59'Goal · Mathieu Valbuena
- 66'Goal · T. Taïwo
- 68'Yellow card · Siaka Tiéné
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Marseille line-up (4-5-1)
Steve Mandanda, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Ronald Zubar, Lorik Cana, Laurent Bonnart, Kanga Akale, Karim Ziani, Benoît Cheyrou, Modeste M'bami, Samir Nasri, Djibril Cissé
Saint-Étienne line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jody Viviani, Stathis Tavlaridis, Siaka Tiéné, Mouhamadou Dabo, Loïc Perrin, Yohan Benalouane, Geoffrey Dernis, Pascal Feindouno, Christophe Landrin, Ilan, Blaise Matuidi