Olympique Marseille 4-3 Strasbourg: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 17 May 2008

Result

Olympique Marseille 4-3 Strasbourg

Ligue 1 · Saturday 17 May 2008, 18:50 UTC · half-time 3-2

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Olympique Marseille 4-3 Strasbourg: match report

Olympique Marseille defeated Strasbourg 4-3 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 17 May 2008. It was 3-2 at half-time.

Mamadou Niang opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Mamadou Niang (6'), Djibril Cissé (45+2'), Samir Nasri (45+5') and Djibril Cissé (78'). Strasbourg scored through James Fanchone (10'), Kévin Gameiro (19') and S. Zenke (72').

Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card; Strasbourg received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 4th on 59 points from 37 and Strasbourg 19th on 35 points from 37. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 3rd with 62 points, and Strasbourg 19th with 35.

Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-5-1 and Strasbourg in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Olympique Marseille win, 2 draws and 0 for Strasbourg.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Mamadou NiangOlympique Marseille · 1-0
  • 10'Goal · James FanchoneStrasbourg · 1-1
  • 19'Goal · Kévin GameiroStrasbourg · 1-2
  • 21'Yellow card · Z. SzélesiStrasbourg
  • 45+2'Goal · Djibril CisséOlympique Marseille · 2-2
  • 45+5'Goal · Samir NasriOlympique Marseille · 3-2
  • 56'Yellow card · Morgan SchneiderlinStrasbourg
  • 72'Goal · S. ZenkeStrasbourg · 3-3
  • 78'Goal · Djibril CisséOlympique Marseille · 4-3
  • 79'Yellow card · Djibril CisséOlympique Marseille

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Olympique Marseille 1, draws 2, Strasbourg 0.

Team news

Olympique Marseille line-up (4-5-1)

Steve Mandanda, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Ronald Zubar, Lorik Cana, Laurent Bonnart, Benoît Cheyrou, Modeste M'bami, Samir Nasri, Mathieu Valbuena, Djibril Cissé, Mamadou Niang

Strasbourg line-up (4-3-3)

Stephane Cassard, Manuel Dos Santos Fernandes, Pierre Ducrocq, Habib Bellaïd, Gregory Paisley, Rodrigo, Morgan Schneiderlin, Kévin Gameiro, Eric Mouloungui, James Fanchone, Zoltán Szélesi