Olympique Marseille and Angers SCO will face off on Friday the 4th of February at 9:00 pm in the 23rd week of the Ligue 1. The match will be staged in Marseille at the Orange Vélodrome. The referee will be Jeremy Stinat.
Olympique Marseille sits in the 3rd place in the standings with 40 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Olympique Lyonnais in its last match in the Ligue 1. To date, it has won 11 times, draw 7 times, and lost 4 times.
Angers SCO is in the 12th position in the standings with 29 points. It comes from a 0-1 loss against Saint-Étienne in its last match in the Ligue 1. Until now, it has won 7 times, draw 8 times, and lost 7 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Olympique Marseille
Olympique Marseille has mostly adopted the 3-2-4-1 line-up most used during the season (5 times or 22.73%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-2-4-1 (5 times), 4-1-4-1 (4 times), 4-3-3 (3 times), 3-4-3 (2 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 3-3-1-3 (2 times), 3-3-3-1 (2 times), 4-4-1-1 (once) and 3-5-1-1 (once).
Jorge Luis Sampaoli Moya is expected to play against Angers SCO with the following players: P. López Sabata, L. Peres Petroni, D. Ćaleta-Car, W. Saliba, V. Rongier, B. Kamara, L. Tomaz de Lima, G. Santos da Silva, M. Guendouzi Olié, C. Ünder and D. Payet.
If this will be the line-up, the estimate average age of Olympique Marseille would be 25.73.
A. Dia, S. Mandanda, P. Gueye and C. Bakambu will definitely miss the match.
Angers SCO
Angers SCO has mostly adopted the 3-4-1-2 line-up most used during the season (12 times or 54.55%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-1-2 (12 times), 3-5-2 (7 times), 5-3-2 (once), 3-1-4-2 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Gérald Baticle is expected to play against Olympique Marseille with the following players: D. Petković, B. Mendy, I. Traoré, V. Manceau, M. Pereira Lage, A. Fulgini, T. Mangani, N. Bentaleb, J. Cabot and R. Ninga.
In case that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Angers SCO would be 29.20.
Gérald Baticle will probably not be able to employ M. Cho, A. Ounahi and S. Boufal because of injury.
E. Ebosse, R. Thomas and S. Bahoken will definitely miss the match.