Olympique Marseille 2-1 Sochaux: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 30 August 2008
Result
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Sochaux
Ligue 1 · Saturday 30 August 2008, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Sochaux: match report
Olympique Marseille defeated Sochaux 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 30 August 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.
Karim Ziani opened the scoring in the 39th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Karim Ziani (39') and Bakari Koné (61'). Sochaux scored through M. Erdinç (73').
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card; Sochaux received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 4th on 7 points from 3 and Sochaux 18th on 1 point from 3. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 2nd with 77 points, and Sochaux 14th with 42.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-5-1 and Sochaux in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Olympique Marseille wins, 1 draw and 3 for Sochaux.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read W-W-D and Sochaux's D-L-L.
Key events
- 22'Yellow card · Stephane Dalmat
- 30'Yellow card · Benoît Cheyrou
- 39'Goal · Karim Ziani
- 58'Yellow card · Rabiu Afolabi
- 61'Goal · Bakari Koné
- 73'Goal · M. Erdinç
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Marseille expected line-up (4-5-1)
Steve Mandanda, Laurent Bonnart, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Lorik Cana, Julien Rodriguez, Ronald Zubar, Modeste M'bami, Samir Nasri, Benoît Cheyrou, Djibril Cissé, Mamadou Niang
Sochaux expected line-up (4-4-2)
Teddy Richert, Jeremie Brechet, Rabiu Afolabi, Stéphane Pichot, Damien Perquis, Stephane Dalmat, Nicolas Maurice-Belay, Fabrice Pancrate, Guirane N'Daw, Mickael Isabey, Romain Pitau