Our prediction for this Ligue 1 match:
Marseille
Match Time & Date:
14/12/2024
17:00
Prediction: 1-1
Lille
All eyes will be on Stade Velodrome when Olympique Marseille and Lille lock horns in the Ligue 1 derby. OM are on a three-game winning run in the league, but Saturday’s clash will be anything but a walk in the park for Adrien Rabiot and Co. There are no fresh injury worries in the home team, but all Ulisses Garcia, Pol Lirola, Amine Harit, Faris Moumbagna, and Ruben Blanco remain in the recovery room.
Les Dogues, on the other hand, are eager to stay in the Champions League berth. Lille produced yet another fine performance in a 3-1 win over Brest at the weekend and given OM’s attacking potential at home, both teams to score betting option should be considered. The good news for the visitors is that defender Mitchel Bakker is back from suspension, but all Zhegrova, Gomes, Santos, Bentaleb, Umtiti, and Ethan Mbappe are sidelined with injuries.
Highlighted Player (Benjamin André):
Benjamin Andre is a French footballer, who began his career at Stade Raphaelois youth team. At the age of 16 Andre moved to Ajaccio and he played for the first team from 2008 to 2014. The right-footed midfielder scored 12 goals in 187 appearances in the league for the Corsican team and in the summer of 2014 he moved to fellow French club Rennes.
Andre scored his first goal for les Rouges et Noirs on January 25, 2015, in a 4-1 defeat to Caen. The French player made provided three assists for his teammates in 36 appearances for Rennes in the 2016/2017 Ligue 1 campaign and the club chiefs decided to extend his contract in June, 2017. His deal with the Roazhon Park outfit should expire on June 30, 2022.
Benjamin Andre, who was born in Nice on August 3, 1990, has seven caps for France U21 team. The Rennes footballer plays as a central midfielder, but he is often used as both left and right midfielder.
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.
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