MARSEILLE. Olympique Marseille overcome Nice to win 2-1. A goal from M. Lemina was decisive in the 90min. It was Olympique Marseille to strike first with a penalty of A. Milik at the 45′. Then C. Bakambu scored again for Olympique Marseille in the 89′ minute. Eventually, M. Lemina reduced the distance for Nice (90′). Finally, that was it, and the result remained 2-1. Olympique Marseille made the most of its superior ball possession (57%).

The match was played at the Orange Vélodrome stadium in Marseille on Sunday and it started at 8:45 pm local time. The referee was Jérôme Brisard with the assistance of Benjamin Pages and Alexis Auger. The 4th official was Bastien Dechepy. The weather was cloudy. The temperature was cold at 10.2 degrees Celsius or 50.27 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 41%.​

Match Statistics​

Olympique Marseille

2 - 1

Nice

  • 57 Ball Possession 43
Shots
  • 14 Total 9
  • 5 On Target 2
  • 9 Off Target 7
  • 1 Shots blocked 1
  • 108 Attack 110
  • 45 Dangerous attack 25
  • 69 Ball safe 63
  • 1 Penalties 0
  • 3 Corners 2
  • 2 Off Sides 3
Fouls
  • 12 Total 11
  • 2 Yellow Cards 1
  • 0 Double Yellow 0
  • 0 Red Card 0
Other
  • 4 Substitutions 5

Ball possession

Olympique Marseille had a strong ball possession 57% while Nice was struggling with a 43% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Olympique Marseille was more pushing with 45 dangerous attacks and 14 shots of which 5 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Olympique Marseille won the match​.

Olympique Marseille shot 14 times, 5 on target, 9 off target. Talking about the opposition, Nice shot 9 times, 2 on target, 7 off target.

Cards

Olympique Marseille received 2 yellow cards (D. Caleta-Car and W. Saliba). On the other side, Nice received 2 yellow cards (M. Bard and M. Lemina).

Match Timeline

45'
Melvin Bard- Yellow
45'
46'
60'
63'
71'
72'
Amine Harit- sub ->C. Under
75'
78'
Evann Guessand- sub ->Andy Delort
78'
Leonardo Balerdi- sub ->P. Gueye
87'
88'
89'
90'
90'
90'

Standings

Standings
Team
Pts
Pl
Last 5
Paris Saint Germain
86
38
Olympique Marseille
71
38
Monaco
69
38
Rennes
66
38
Nice
66
38
Strasbourg
63
38
Lens
62
38
Olympique Lyonnais
61
38
Nantes
55
38
LOSC Lille
55
38
Brest
48
38
Reims
46
38
Montpellier
43
38
Angers SCO
41
38
Troyes
38
38
Lorient
36
38
Clermont
36
38
Saint-Étienne
32
38
Metz
31
38
Bordeaux
31
38

After this contest, Olympique Marseille will have 53 points to sit in the 2nd place. On the other side, Nice will stay with 50 points to hold in the 4th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Ligue 1, Olympique Marseille will host Montpellier on the 10th of April with a 15-7 head to head statistic in favor of Olympique Marseille (6 draws).

Nice will play away agasint Lens on the 10th of April with a 5-4 head to head record in favor of Nice (6 draws).

Olympique Marseille – Formation

Olympique Marseille
G
Pau López 16.Spain
6.9
D
Duje Caleta-Car 15.Croatia
7.1
60'
D
Boubacar Kamara 4.France
7.1
D
William Saliba 2.France
6.9
90'
M
Dimitri Payet 10.France
7.6
88'
M
Valentin Rongier 21.France
6.2
M
Mattéo Guendouzi 6.France
7.1
M
Pape Gueye 22.Senegal
6.4
87'
F
Gerson 8.Brazil
7.3
F
Cengiz Ünder 17.Turkey
6.9
75'
F
Arkadiusz Milik 9.Poland
6.9
78' 45'
Substitutes
G
Steve Mandanda 30.France
D
Luan Peres 14.Brazil
D
Sead Kolasinac 23.Bosnia and Herzegovina
6.3
78'
D
Leonardo Balerdi 5.Argentina
6.2
87'
D
Pol Lirola 29.Spain
M
Amine Harit 7.Morocco
6.4
75'
F
Luis Henrique 11.Brazil
F
Cédric Bakambu 13.DR Congo
7.6
88' 89'

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

The manager Jorge Luis Sampaoli Moya decided to play with the following team: .

Substitutions

Olympique Marseille made 4 changes: C. Under for A. Harit (75′), A. Milik for S. Kolasinac (78′), P. Gueye for L. Balerdi (87′) and D. Payet for C. Bakambu (88′).

Nice – Formation

Nice
G
Walter Benítez 40.Argentina
6.8
D
Jordan Lotomba 23.Switzerland
6.8
72'
D
Jean-Clair Todibo 25.France
6.4
D
Melvin Bard 26.France
7.1
46' 45'
D
Pablo Rosario 8.Netherlands
6.7
M
Khéphren Thuram 19.France
7.3
71'
M
C. Stengs 22.Netherlands
6.7
63'
M
Morgan Schneiderlin 6.France
7.0
M
Mario Lemina 18.Gabon
7.8
90' 90'
F
Andy Delort 7.Algeria
6.4
78'
F
Amine Gouiri 11.Algeria
6.9
Substitutes
G
M. Bułka 1.Poland
D
Flavius Daniliuc 5.Austria
D
Jordan Amavi 12.France
7.0
46'
D
Youcef Atal 20.Algeria
6.6
72'
M
Danilo Barbosa 15.Brazil
F
Justin Kluivert 21.Netherlands
7.1
71'
F
Kasper Dolberg 9.Denmark
6.2
63'
F
Evann Guessand 24.France
6.2
78'

Nice started with a conservative line-up (4-4-2).

Christophe Galtier played with: .

Substitutions

Nice made 5 changes: M. Bard for J. Amavi (46′), C. Stengs for K. Dolberg (63′), K. Thuram for J. Kluivert (71′), J. Lotomba for Y. Atal (72′) and A. Delort for E. Guessand (79′).

Results of the day

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