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Marseille vs Montpellier

Competition – France Ligue 1

Stadium – Stade Vélodrome

Date: 24th May 2019

Kick-off time – 20:05 GMT

Marseille will be looking to end their season on a high after failing to make the Champions League due to inconsistent performances this season.

They were on a run of three consecutive losses before earning a thrilling 5-2 win over Toulouse last time out.

The home side haven’t had many problems scoring goals, but they have been too poor at the back as their veteran defenders including Adil Rami have had a poor season.

Marseille have lost their last two home games to Lyon and Nantes and their fans would be hoping that is not the case here as the season comes to an end.

Montpellier have been in a better run of form and hold some bragging rights having beaten their host 3-0 in the reverse of this fixture.

The visitors haven’t done the double over Marseille since the 2014/2015 season and they would be keen to at least extend their current unbeaten run which stands at 6 games when both sides meet in this game.

Marseille should be very motivated to end the season strongly in front of their fans but the visitors won’t hand victory to them on a platter.

Bookmakers have priced Marseille up as slight odds-on favourites to come out on top in this game despite their recent issues.

Goal markets point to an exciting game as over 2.5 goals is currently trading odds-on while Florian Thauvin and Mario Baloelli are joint favourites to score the opening goal of the game.

Other fixtures taking place this week in France Ligue 1:

January 3, 2025
OGC Nice 21:00 Stade Rennais FC
January 4, 2025
Saint-Etienne 17:00 Stade de Reims
LOSC Lille Métropole 19:00 Nantes
Lyon 21:00 Montpellier Hérault SC
January 5, 2025
Lens 15:00 Toulouse
Angers 15:00 Brest
Strasbourg 15:00 Auxerre
Marseille 20:45 Le Havre
January 12, 2025
Stade Rennais FC 01:00 Marseille
Paris Saint-Germain 01:00 Saint-Etienne
Brest 01:00 Lyon
Montpellier Hérault SC 01:00 Angers
Le Havre 01:00 Lens
Auxerre 01:00 LOSC Lille Métropole
Nantes 01:00 Monaco
Toulouse 01:00 Strasbourg
Stade de Reims 01:00 OGC Nice

France Ligue 1 Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Paris Saint-Germain 16 12 4 0 44 14 +30 40
2 Marseille 15 9 3 3 32 18 +14 30
3 Monaco 16 9 3 4 26 16 +10 30
4 LOSC Lille Métropole 15 7 6 2 25 15 +10 27
5 Lyon 15 7 4 4 27 20 +7 25
6 OGC Nice 15 6 6 3 28 19 +9 24
7 Lens 15 6 6 3 19 14 +5 24
8 Auxerre 15 6 3 6 23 23 +0 21
9 Toulouse 15 6 3 6 17 17 +0 21
10 Stade de Reims 15 5 5 5 20 18 +2 20
11 Brest 15 6 1 8 24 27 -3 19
12 Stade Rennais FC 15 5 2 8 20 20 +0 17
13 Strasbourg 15 4 5 6 25 27 -2 17
14 Nantes 15 3 5 7 17 24 -7 14
15 Angers 15 3 4 8 14 26 -12 13
16 Saint-Etienne 15 4 1 10 12 34 -22 13
17 Le Havre 15 4 0 11 11 29 -18 12
18 Montpellier Hérault SC 15 2 3 10 15 38 -23 9

France Ligue 1 Results

December 18, 2024
Monaco 2 - 4 Paris Saint-Germain
December 15, 2024
Paris Saint-Germain 3 - 1 Lyon
Brest 4 - 1 Nantes
Le Havre 0 - 3 Strasbourg
Stade Rennais FC 2 - 0 Angers
Montpellier Hérault SC 2 - 2 OGC Nice
December 14, 2024
Stade de Reims 0 - 0 Monaco
Auxerre 2 - 2 Lens
Marseille 1 - 1 LOSC Lille Métropole
December 13, 2024
Toulouse 2 - 1 Saint-Etienne
December 8, 2024
Saint-Etienne 0 - 2 Marseille
Nantes 1 - 0 Stade Rennais FC
Strasbourg 0 - 0 Stade de Reims
Lens 2 - 0 Montpellier Hérault SC
December 7, 2024
Angers 0 - 3 Lyon
OGC Nice 2 - 1 Le Havre
Monaco 2 - 0 Toulouse
December 6, 2024
Auxerre 0 - 0 Paris Saint-Germain
LOSC Lille Métropole 3 - 1 Brest

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