Saint-Étienne and Olympique Marseille are going to play on Saturday the 2nd of April at 9:00 pm in the 30th week of the Ligue 1. The match will take place in Saint-etienne at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. The appointed referee is Amaury Delerue.
Saint-Étienne is in the 18th place in the table with 27 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Troyes in its last match in the Ligue 1. As of now, it has won 6 times, draw 9 times, and lost 14 times.
Olympique Marseille occupies the 2nd position in the table with 53 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Nice in its last match in the Ligue 1. Up to now, it has won 15 times, draw 8 times, and lost 5 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (6 times or 20.69%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (6 times), 3-4-1-2 (5 times), 4-3-3 (5 times), 5-4-1 (3 times), 3-4-2-1 (3 times), 4-4-2 (3 times), 4-3-1-2 (2 times), 3-4-3 (once) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Pascal Dupraz is expected to play against Olympique Marseille with the following players: S. Sow, H. Moukoudi, T. Kolodziejczak, M. Camara, L. Gourna Douath, A. Nordin, D. Bouanga and R. Boudebouz.
Assuming that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Saint-Étienne would be 25.38.
There are doubts about the presence of W. Khazri.
Pascal Dupraz will probably not be able to employ J. Gnagnon, Y. Macon, M. Rivera, Y. Neyou Noupa and R. Hamouma because of injury.
B. Sako will definitely miss the match.
Olympique Marseille
Olympique Marseille has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 3-2-4-1 and 4-3-3 (6 times or 21.43% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-2-4-1 (6 times), 4-3-3 (6 times), 4-1-4-1 (4 times), 3-4-3 (2 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 3-3-1-3 (2 times), 3-3-3-1 (2 times), 4-3-2-1 (once), 4-3-1-2 (once), 4-4-1-1 (once) and 3-5-1-1 (once).
Jorge Luis Sampaoli Moya is expected to play against Saint-Étienne with the following players: P. López Sabata, W. Saliba, D. Ćaleta-Car, V. Rongier, B. Kamara, G. Santos da Silva, P. Gueye, M. Guendouzi Olié, D. Payet, C. Ünder and C. Bakambu.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the average age of Olympique Marseille would be 26.18.
A. Milik will definitely miss the match.
Jorge Luis Sampaoli Moya will not be able to have the presence of L. Peres Petroni who is suspended.
