Saint-Étienne 0-3 Olympique Marseille: result and report
Ligue 1 · Sunday 5 April 2009
Result
Saint-Étienne 0-3 Olympique Marseille
Ligue 1 · Sunday 5 April 2009, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Saint-Étienne 0-3 Olympique Marseille: match report
Saint-Étienne lost to Olympique Marseille 0-3 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 5 April 2009. The half-time score was 0-0.
Mamadou Niang opened the scoring in the 60th minute. Saint-Étienne did not score. Olympique Marseille scored through Mamadou Niang (60', penalty), Brandão (73') and Mamadou Niang (76').
Discipline: Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards; Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Saint-Étienne were 18th on 29 points from 29 and Olympique Marseille 3rd on 55 points from 29. Saint-Étienne went on to finish that season 17th with 40 points, and Olympique Marseille 2nd with 77.
Saint-Étienne lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Olympique Marseille in a 4-3-1-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Saint-Étienne wins, 0 draws and 5 for Olympique Marseille.
Going into the match Saint-Étienne's last five read L-L-W-D-D and Olympique Marseille's W-W-D-W-D.
Key events
- 59'Yellow card · Moustapha Bayal Sall
- 60'Penalty goal · Mamadou Niang
- 63'Yellow card · Christophe Landrin
- 73'Goal · Brandão
- 76'Goal · Mamadou Niang
- 77'Yellow card · Hatem Ben Arfa
Head-to-head
Team news
Saint-Étienne expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jody Viviani, Stathis Tavlaridis, Loïc Perrin, Mouhamadou Dabo, Moustapha Bayal Sall, Christophe Landrin, Pascal Feindouno, Dimitri Payet, Geoffrey Dernis, Bafétimbi Gomis, Blaise Matuidi
Olympique Marseille expected line-up (4-3-1-2)
Steve Mandanda, Lorik Cana, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Laurent Bonnart, Ronald Zubar, Karim Ziani, Mamadou Niang, Bakari Koné, Vitorino Hilton, Hatem Ben Arfa