MARSEILLE. Olympique Marseille comes back against Monaco with a goal on the W. Ben 7′ and a goal on the M. Akliouche 45′. Olympique Marseille was truly superior in terms of ball possession (69%)​

The match was played at the Stade Vélodrome stadium in Marseille on Saturday and it started at 9:00 pm local time. The referee was Willy Delajod with the collaboration of Philippe Jeanne and Julien Aube. The 4th official was Romain Lissorgue. The weather was overcast clouds. The temperature was cold at 13.81 degrees Celsius or 56.86 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 65%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Olympique Marseille was in firm control of the ball 69% while Monaco was struggling with a 31% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Olympique Marseille was more pushing with 78 dangerous attacks and 22 shots of which 9 were on target. Nonetheless, that was not enough Olympique Marseille to win the match​.

Olympique Marseille shot 22 times, 9 on target, 8 off target. Regarding the opposition, Monaco shot 6 times, 5 on target, 1 off target.

Cards

Olympique Marseille received 1 yellow card (Emran Soglo). Talking about the opposition, Monaco received 2 yellow cards (Denis Zakaria and Thilo Kehrer).

Also, Monaco didn’t end the match with 11 players after Guillermo Maripán (Monaco) was sent off after receiving a straight red card (11′).

Standings

After playing this match, Olympique Marseille has 29 points like Reims to remain in the 6th place. Regarding the opposition, Monaco will has 34 points like Brest to remain in the 4th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Ligue 1, Olympique Marseille will play away against Olympique Lyonnais on the 4th of February with a 17-10 head to head stats in favor of Olympique Lyonnais (16 draws).

Monaco will host Le Havre on the 4th of February with a 3-2 head to head in favor of Monaco (2 draws).

Olympique Marseille – Formation

Olympique Marseille started with a aggressive line-up (4-3-3).

The manager Ivan Gennaro Gattuso decided to play with the following team: Pau López (6.6), Jonathan Clauss (6.3), Bamo Meïté (7.5), Leonardo Balerdi (8.4), Ulisses Garcia (8.2), Junior Onana (7.5), Geoffrey Kondogbia (7.1), Jordan Veretout (7.5), Luis Henrique (7.7), Vitinha (6.3) and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (7.5).

The home team had on the bench: Roggerio Nyakossi, Joaquín Correa (6.4), Léo Jousselin, Stéphane Sparagna, Rubén Blanco, Emran Soglo (6.8), Sofiane Sidi Ali (6.4), Iuri Moreira and Noam Mayoka-Tika.

Olympique Marseille could not rely on the presence of Emran Soglo (injured).

Substitutions

Olympique Marseille made 2 changes: Jonathan Clauss for Emran Soglo (35′) and Emran Soglo for Joaquín Correa (78′).

Player of the match: Leonardo Balerdi​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Olympique Marseille was Leonardo Balerdi.

His rating is 8.4 with 1 goal, 77 passes (95% accurate) and 0 key passes. He won 10 duels out of 14.

Monaco – Formation

Monaco started with a 3-4-2-1 line-up (3-4-2-1).

Adolf Hütter played with: Folarin Balogun, Philipp Köhn (8.2), Thilo Kehrer (6.3), Guillermo Maripán (3.1), Mohammed Salisu (7.5), Vanderson (6.0), Youssouf Fofana (6.8), Denis Zakaria (7.0), Kassoum Ouattara (6.7), Maghnes Akliouche (7.3) and Aleksandr Golovin (8.4), Wissam Ben Yedder (8.1).

The following players were sitting on the bench: Chrislain Matsima, Radosław Majecki, Eliesse Ben Seghir (6.6), Myron Boadu, Edan Diop, Antonin Cartillier, Mamadou Coulibaly, Soungoutou Magassa and Lucas Michal.

Substitutions

Monaco made 2 changes: Maghnes Akliouche for Eliesse Ben Seghir (86′) and Wissam Ben Yedder for Chrislain Matsima (89′).

Player of the match: Aleksandr Golovin​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Monaco was Aleksandr Golovin.

His rating is 8.4 with 40 passes (63% accurate) and 1 key pass. He won 7 duels out of 8. He performed 3 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Ligue 1.​

• Olympique Marseille – Monaco – 2-2
• Nice – Metz – 1-0