Olympique Marseille 2-0 Saint-Étienne: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 3 March 2019

Result

Olympique Marseille 2-0 Saint-Étienne

Ligue 1 · Sunday 3 March 2019, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Olympique Marseille · Saint-Étienne · Ligue 1 predictions

Olympique Marseille 2-0 Saint-Étienne: match report

Olympique Marseille beat Saint-Étienne 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 3 March 2019. The half-time score was 2-0.

Mario Balotelli opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Mario Balotelli (12') and F. Thauvin (21', penalty). Saint-Étienne did not score.

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 2 yellow cards; Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 6th on 41 points from 26 and Saint-Étienne 4th on 43 points from 26. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 5th with 61 points, and Saint-Étienne 4th with 66.

Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-4-2 and Saint-Étienne in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Florian Thauvin of Olympique Marseille (8.8), ahead of Morgan Sanson (7.8).

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 D-W-W-W-L and Saint-Étienne's W-L-W-L-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Yellow card · Hiroki SakaiOlympique Marseille
  • 12'Goal · Mario BalotelliOlympique Marseille · 1-0
  • 19'Yellow card · Mathieu DebuchySaint-Étienne
  • 21'Penalty goal · F. ThauvinOlympique Marseille · 2-0
  • 25'Yellow card · Bouna SarrOlympique Marseille
  • 85'Yellow card · Wahbi KhazriSaint-Étienne

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Olympique Marseille 4, draws 5, Saint-Étienne 1.

Team news

Olympique Marseille line-up (4-4-2)

Steve Mandanda, Bouna Sarr, Boubacar Kamara, Duje Caleta-Car, Hiroki Sakai, Florian Thauvin, Maxime Lopez, Morgan Sanson, Lucas Ocampos, Valère Germain, Mario Balotelli

Saint-Étienne line-up (3-4-1-2)

Stéphane Ruffier, Loïc Perrin, Neven Subotić, Timothée Kolodziejczak, Mathieu Debuchy, Youssef Aït Bennasser, Yann M'Vila, Pierre-Yves Polomat, Rémy Cabella, Romain Hamouma, Wahbi Khazri