Our prediction for this Ligue 1 match:
Troyes
Match Time & Date:
11/01/2023
21:00
Prediction: 1-2
Marseille
Stade de l’Aube will host Wednesday’s Ligue 1 game between Troyes and Olympique Marseille, the two teams who sit in the opposite halves of the table. Thanks to a 3-2 win over Strasbourg, Troyes climbed to 13th place in the standings, but their Ligue 1 status is still in danger. Both Lucien Agoume and Karim Azamoum remain in the recovery room, but there are no fresh injury worries in the home team.
OM, on the other hand, have been in a fine form of late, with the team beating both Toulouse (6-1) and Montpellier (2-1) in the national championship, while eliminating Hyeres in the Coupe de France last 64. Given Troyes’ shaky defence, we predict that Marseille are going to stay in the Champions League berth by recording their fifth consecutive league win. Both Nuno Tavares and Eric Bailly are banned for the match, while Samuel Gigot and Amine Harit miss out with injuries.
Highlighted Player (Dimitri Payet):
Dimitri Payet was born in Saint-Pierre, Reunion on 29 March 1987, but he joined Le Havre’s famous youth academy in 1999 and has since enjoyed a meteoric rise. The attacking midfielder started his professional career at Nantes, but top French clubs soon started casting admiring glances his way and he went on to represent Saint Etienne, Lille and Marseille, becoming one of Ligue 1’s leading footballers.
However, it was the move to West Ham that placed Payet on the map as the Frenchman enjoyed a brilliant start to his career in England, making the PFA Player of the Year Shortlist. Some excellent performances in the Premier League persuaded France coach Didier Deschamps to reinstate Payet into his starting line-up and the midfielder paid the coach back with some scintillating displays on international stage.
Excellent with the ball at his feet and very dangerous from set pieces, Payet quickly established himself as one of Europe’s top midfielders, with the likes of Barcelona, Arsenal and other top clubs now after his signature.
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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