Olympique Marseille 2-1 Saint-Étienne: result and report
Ligue 1 · Sunday 28 September 2014
Result
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Saint-Étienne
Ligue 1 · Sunday 28 September 2014, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Saint-Étienne: match report
Olympique Marseille defeated Saint-Étienne 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 28 September 2014. The half-time score was 2-0.
Giannelli Imbula opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Giannelli Imbula (7') and Dimitri Payet (28'). Saint-Étienne scored through Jonathan Brison (53').
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card; Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 2nd on 16 points from 7 and Saint-Étienne 6th on 14 points from 7. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 3rd with 71 points, and Saint-Étienne 5th with 65.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Saint-Étienne in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Olympique Marseille wins, 5 draws and 1 for Saint-Étienne.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Saint-Étienne's D-W-W-L-D.
Key events
- 7'Goal · Giannelli Imbula
- 28'Goal · Dimitri Payet
- 51'Yellow card · Y. Mollo
- 53'Goal · Jonathan Brison
- 79'Yellow card · Ismaël Diomandé
- 85'Yellow card · Nicolas N'Koulou
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Marseille line-up (4-2-3-1)
Steve Mandanda, Brice Dja Djédjé, Nicolas N'Koulou, Jérémy Morel, Benjamin Mendy, Jacques-Alaixys Romao, Giannelli Imbula, Florian Thauvin, Dimitri Payet, André Ayew, André-Pierre Gignac
Saint-Étienne expected line-up (4-5-1)
Stéphane Ruffier, Moustapha Bayal Sall, Florentin Pogba, Franck Tabanou, Kévin Théophile-Catherine, Fabien Lemoine, Max Gradel, Renaud Cohade, Mevlüt Erdinç