Our prediction for this Ligue 1 match:
Metz
Match Time & Date:
13/02/2022
20:45
Prediction: 0-1
Marseille
Sunday’s football game at Stade Municipal Saint-Symphorien pits together Metz and Olympique Marseille, the two teams with entirely different ambitions in the remainder of the season. Les Grenats have been struggling in front of goal of late, with the team failing to find the net in the previous two league fixtures, and, no doubt, they want to put an end to the negative trend. The good news for the hosts is that Pape Sarr is back from international duty, but Metz’s injury list is pretty long.
OM, on the other hand, are eyeing a place in the Champions League. Given the number of absentees in the home team, we believe that there is a big value in betting on Dmitri Payet and Co. Both Ahmadou Bamba Dieng and Pape Gueye return from the Africa Cup of Nations, while Konrad de la Fuente should miss out with injury.
Highlighted Player (Opa Nguette):
After spending his youth career at Mantes and Valenciennes, Opa Nguette made his senior debut for Mantes in 2011. In 2012 he returned to his boyhood club Valenciennes and it has to be noted that the attacker scored 8 goals in 60 appearances for the club from 2012 to 2016.
Opa Nguette is currently playing for Metz in Ligue 1 and his contract with the club expires on June 30, 2019. The pacey footballer who is capable of playing as both left and right winger has three caps for France U20 team, but he made his senior debut with Senegal. Opa Nguette played 65 minutes in a 1-1 draw with Nigeria on his debut for the Senegal national team.
The Caen attacker, who was born in Mantes-la-Jolie on July 8, 1994, scored four goals for Metz in the 2016/2017 Ligue 1 campaign. He made three assists for his teammates as well during the season and you should bear in mind that he played 33 games in the league for les Grenats.
Highlighted Team (Marseille):
Olympique de Marseille are considered one of the best French football clubs. Les Olympiens won their ninth Ligue 1 title in 2010, but winning of the 1992/1993 Champions League trophy is seen as the club’s biggest success. Marseille defeated Italian giants Milan in the title game, with Basile Boli scoring the winner (1-0) in the Olympiastadion showdown.
It has to be noted, though, that the Stade Velodrome outfit were banned from defending the title in the 1993/1994 season after being involved in a match-fixing scandal. To make things even worse for the fans, the club suffered enforced relegation to the Ligue 2. Olympique de Marseille participated in the Europa League final on two occasions (1998/1999, 2003/2004), but they were beaten by Parma and Valencia respectively in the title games. OM’s home ground Stade Velodrome was opened on June 13, 1997 and the capacity of the stadium is 67.394.
The likes of Franck Ribery, Didier Deschamps, Didier Drogba, Laurent Blanc, Fabien Barthez, Samir Nasri, Fabrizio Ravanelli and Djibril Cisse all played for Marseille in the past.
