Ligue 1 – Season Continues – Olympique de Marseille v Nantes on Match-day 33
The Orange Velodrome sees Wednesday action as Marseille take on Nantes – 9:00pm GMT.
Marseille will face Nantes with a difference of League position of eight places. They will be second in the League when they welcome tenth placed Nantes.
Olympique de Marseille have 59 points to their name, going into this tie
Marseille come to this fixture on the back of a 2-1 away loss against Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes.
Also, Marseille keep finding ways to win, having secured 11 victories in their last 19 fixtures is astonishing this season, a rich vein of form that has drastically improved their Ligue 1 position. They currently stand second in the League, with 59 points for a total of 17 wins, 7 losses and 8 draws having won 17 meetings, drawn eight matches, and lost seven games.
Playing at home, Marseille have won seven fixtures, drawn five meetings, and lost four games.
A win in this fixture would take Olympique de Marseille’s points to 62 in the League.
Good atacking and defensive team
It’s an easy statement to make, but to win you simply have to score more goals than your opponent. Marseille have been consistently applying this principle, whilst remaining defensively solid as a unit this season, with 31 goals in their previous fixtures. Marseille will be pleased to have a good goal scoring record so far this season (52). This season, their stand-out attacking players have been Arkadiusz Milik (6), Cengiz Under (4), and Dimitri Payet (3).
Injury and illness have depleted Jorge Sampaoli’s Marseille and they will likely be missing four key personnel for Wednesday’s match.
Nantes’ Ligue 1 season, has so far seen them gain 47 points, going into this game
Nantes have 90 minutes to break their recent habit of poor, or disappointing results, following a dissapointing home draw to Angers SCO and Brest.
Also, a draw statistic of two in two matches is not all bad, but unfortunately will not bring the success Antoine Kombouare’s men wishes for ultimately. Their position is tenth in the League and they have 47 points, that is, 13W, 11L and 8D having won 13 fixtures, drawn eight meetings, and lost 11 fixtures.
Nantes’ away record is remarkable and poses a significant threat to Marseille. In the 16 games they’ve played on the road this season, they have so far won four matches, drawn five games, and lost seven fixtures.
A win in this fixture, would take Nantes’s points from 47 to 50, so far this season.
Going into Wednesday’s game, Antoine Kombouare without three of his players, due to illness or injury.
Olympique de Marseille v Nantes – Head-to-Heads.
Regarding their historical duels when these two sides meet, a draw is never usually the expected outcome. In the past 45 matches, Marseille have won 18 victories and Nantes 14 wins.
Performance Report
For Marseille, Arkadiusz Milik is one of the top performing players after having scoredsix goals in 32 League games, while Randal Kolo Muani, one of their best scorers, has nettedfive goals in 32 League matches this campaign for Nantes.
Other standout players for Marseille are Arkadiusz Milik and Cengiz Under with six goals both and for Nantes are Ludovic Blas and Willem Geubbels with two goals and two goals respectively.
