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Marseille vs Lille Prediction & Betting tips
Olympique Marseille won a competition last weekend for the first time since late November. Does Rudi Garcia’s team know there to be a positive follow-up against Lille, the number two of Ligue 1?
Olympique Marseille:
After a series of five games without a win in the Ligue 1 (three draws and two defeats), Olympique Marseille won a league match last weekend for the first time since November. On his visit to Caen, Morgan Sanson, who had to come in for half an hour before the injured Dimitri Payet, was able to score the only goal of the match after Kevin Strootman gave up. After twenty matches played, L’OM is in seventh place with six points behind the top three, but the Marseilles players still have a match.
Olympique Marseille wanted to join the Italian striker Mario Balotelli last summer, but Olympique Nice did not want to let him go. The enfant terrible knew how to make such fur on the Côte d’Azur in the first half of the season that he could make the switch to Marseille in the winter break. The flamboyant Italian had not been part of the match selection of Olympique Nice since mid-December and came to only one assist in ten gigs this season. In terms of pit, the Italian is in any case a suitable addition for the selection of the Marseilles, but the question is whether the Italian footballer is still on level.
Lille:
In home, the number two of the Ligue 1 did not regain a 1-0 deficit against the low flyer Amiens in the closing stages until last weekend, which enabled Lille to consolidate second place. Because AS Saint-Étienne was fighting against Olympique Lyonnais, Les Dogues even managed to get out of the competition; the lead on the number three Olympique Lyonnais is now three points and the team has four points more than AS Saint-Étienne. Midweeks were also good business by winning a 4-0 win with FC Sète 34 1-0 to reach the last sixteen in the battle for the Coupe de France.
The attacking revelation at Lille this season is Nicolas Pépé, but in the past few weeks the attention at Les Dogues goes to another attacker: Rafael Leao. The nineteen-year-old striker was taken over from Sporting Club de Portugal last summer and seemed to become Rui Fonte’s stand-in at the start of the season, but the striker has become indispensable in recent weeks. With four goals in his last four league matches, the youth is working on an excellent series. The statistics of the early career of Leao are very good anyway with seven goals in ten games at the second level in Portugal and six goals in fourteen games at the highest level in Portugal and France.
Marseille vs Lille head to head matches
30.09.18 L1 Lille Marseille 3 : 0
21.04.18 L1 Marseille Lille 5 : 1
29.10.17 L1 Lille Marseille 0 : 1
17.03.17 L1 Lille Marseille 0 : 0
18.12.16 L1 Marseille Lille 2 : 0