Our prediction for this Ligue 1 match:
Rennes
Match Time & Date:
15 August 2025
19:45
Prediction: 1-2
Marseille
Expect a thrilling atmosphere at Roazhon Park when Rennes and Olympique Marseille face each other in the opening match of the new Ligue 1 campaign. Les Rouge et Noirs played out a 2-2 draw with Genoa in their last warm-up game and they are likely to adopt yet another attack-oriented approach against OM. The likes of Quentin Merlin, Lilian Brassier, Valentin Rongier, and Przemyslaw Frankowski have joined the club in the summer transfer window, but several first-team regulars are no longer parts of the team, including Adrien Truffert, Henrik Meister, Azor Matusiwa, and Lorenz Assignon.
Marseille, on the other hand, produced a brilliant performance in their last pre-season friendly, with the team crushing Aston Villa 3-1 at Stade Velodrome. Given Rennes’ aforementioned departures and OM’s successful preseason, there is a big value in betting on the visiting side. Experienced forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is back to the team, while summer signing Igor Paixao is widely expected to make his Ligue 1 debut against Rennes.
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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