Olympique Marseille 2-1 Valenciennes: result and report
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 29 January 2014
Result
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Valenciennes
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 29 January 2014, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Olympique Marseille 2-1 Valenciennes: match report
Olympique Marseille won against Valenciennes 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Wednesday 29 January 2014. It was 1-1 at half-time.
A. Gignac opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Olympique Marseille's goals came from A. Gignac (31') and F. Thauvin (63'). Valenciennes scored through Arthur Masuaku (37').
Discipline: Olympique Marseille received no yellow cards; Valenciennes received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Marseille were 7th on 32 points from 21 and Valenciennes 18th on 18 points from 21. Olympique Marseille went on to finish that season 5th with 58 points, and Valenciennes 19th with 29.
Olympique Marseille lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Valenciennes in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Olympique Marseille wins, 4 draws and 3 for Valenciennes.
Going into the match Olympique Marseille's last five read L-W-W-D-L and Valenciennes's D-W-D-L-D.
Key events
- 31'Goal · A. Gignac
- 37'Goal · Arthur Masuaku
- 63'Goal · F. Thauvin
- 81'Yellow card · Saliou Ciss
- 90+2'Yellow card · D. Ducourtioux
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Marseille expected line-up (4-3-1-2)
Steve Mandanda, Souleymane Diawara, Benjamin Mendy, Kassim Abdallah Mfoihaia, Jacques-Alaixys Romao, Nicolas N'Koulou, Mario Lemina, Florian Thauvin, Benoît Cheyrou, André-Pierre Gignac
Valenciennes expected line-up (4-4-2)
Nicolas Penneteau, Arthur Masuaku, Gary Kagelmacher, Saliou Ciss, Benjamin Angoua, Tongo Doumbia, David Ducourtioux, Matthieu Dossevi, Maor Melikson, Jean-Christophe Bahebeck