Olympique Marseille 5-1 Valenciennes: result and report
Ligue 1 · Sunday 7 February 2010
Result
Olympique Marseille 5-1 Valenciennes
Ligue 1 · Sunday 7 February 2010, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Olympique Marseille 5-1 Valenciennes: match report
Olympique Marseille defeated Valenciennes 5-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 7 February 2010. The half-time score was 2-0.
Lucho González opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from Lucho González (33'), Brandão (43'), Benoît Cheyrou (53'), Mathieu Valbuena (77') and Mamadou Niang (90'). Valenciennes scored through Carlos Sánchez (66').
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card; Valenciennes received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 7th on 36 points from 21 and Valenciennes 11th on 32 points from 22. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 1st with 78 points, and Valenciennes 9th with 52.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-3-3 and Valenciennes in a 4-3-2-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Olympique Marseille wins, 2 draws and 2 for Valenciennes.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read L-W-D-L-D and Valenciennes's D-W-L-L-D.
Key events
- 10'Yellow card · Jacques Abardonado
- 33'Goal · Lucho González
- 35'Yellow card · Mathieu Valbuena
- 40'Yellow card · Siaka Tiéné
- 43'Goal · Brandão
- 53'Goal · Benoît Cheyrou
- 66'Goal · Carlos Sánchez
- 72'Yellow card · Rémi Gomis
- 77'Goal · Mathieu Valbuena
- 90'Goal · Mamadou Niang
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Marseille line-up (4-3-3)
Elinton Andrade, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Souleymane Diawara, Laurent Bonnart, Edouard Cisse, Benoît Cheyrou, Lucho González, Mathieu Valbuena, Brandão, Hatem Ben Arfa, Mehmet Yozgatlı
Valenciennes line-up (4-3-2-1)
Nicolas Penneteau, Milan Biševac, Siaka Tiéné, Rudy Mater, Johan Audel, Fahid Ben Khalfallah, Remi Gomis, Carlos Sánchez, Renaud Cohade, Gregory Pujol, Jacques Abardonado