Valenciennes 3-2 Olympique Marseille: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 26 September 2009
Result
Valenciennes 3-2 Olympique Marseille
Ligue 1 · Saturday 26 September 2009, 17:00 UTC · half-time 2-2
Valenciennes 3-2 Olympique Marseille: match report
Valenciennes defeated Olympique Marseille 3-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 26 September 2009. The half-time score was 2-2.
Morientes opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Valenciennes's goals came from M. Biševac (21'), D. Ducourtioux (29') and Rafael Schmitz (84'). Olympique Marseille scored through Morientes (13') and Mamadou Niang (22').
Discipline: Valenciennes received 3 yellow cards; Olympique Marseille received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Valenciennes were 13th on 7 points from 6 and Olympique Marseille 3rd on 14 points from 6. Valenciennes went on to finish that season 9th with 52 points, and Olympique Marseille 1st with 78.
Valenciennes lined up in a 4-3-2-1 and Olympique Marseille in a 4-3-1-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Valenciennes win, 2 draws and 3 for Olympique Marseille.
Going into the match Valenciennes's last five read W-D-W-L-L and Olympique Marseille's W-W-D-D-W.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Morientes
- 21'Goal · M. Biševac
- 22'Goal · Mamadou Niang
- 29'Goal · D. Ducourtioux
- 38'Yellow card · R. Mater
- 55'Yellow card · Brandão
- 80'Yellow card · Rémi Gomis
- 83'Yellow card · Cyril Rool
- 84'Goal · Rafael Schmitz
- 88'Yellow card · D. Ducourtioux
Head-to-head
Team news
Valenciennes line-up (4-3-2-1)
Guy N'Dy Assembé, Rafael Schmitz, Milan Biševac, Siaka Tiéné, Rudy Mater, Johan Audel, Remi Gomis, Carlos Sánchez, Renaud Cohade, Mamadou Samassa, David Ducourtioux
Olympique Marseille expected line-up (4-3-1-2)
Steve Mandanda, Taye Ismaila Taiwo, Laurent Bonnart, Lorik Cana, Ronald Zubar, Benoît Cheyrou, Mamadou Niang, Bakari Koné, Vitorino Hilton, Hatem Ben Arfa, Karim Ziani