Our prediction for this Ligue 1 match:
Marseille
Match Time & Date:
12 September 2025
19:45
Prediction: 3-0
Lorient
Friday’s football game between Olympique Marseille and Lorient will open round 4 of the new Ligue 1 campaign. OM continue with their old habit of producing fine performances at home and struggling on the travels, with the bookies seeing them as hot favourites to win this match. Adrien Rabiot is no longer part of the team after joining AC Milan in the final stages of the summer transfer window, but boss Roberto De Zerbi still has a number of high-profile players to choose from.
Marseille defender CJ Egan-Riley is banned for the match, while latest signing Igor Paixao is widely expected to make his Ligue 1 debut against Lorient. Les Merlus, on the other hand, experienced all sorts of problems at the back in an embarrassing 7-1 loss to Lille and with Marseille turning their Velodrome into a real fortress, home win should be considered. Defender Panos Katseris is unlikely to feature for Lorient after picking up a knock in the last league match.
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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