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Marseille vs Strasbourg Prediction & Betting tips
16 teams remained in the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France, the most important cup competition in the country of the reigning world champion. If the fifth division FC Limonest also made quite a few exotic players in this round, the first division are clearly outnumbered.
Twelve Ligue 1 representatives are still in the competition, which inevitably resulted in a few of them being drawn against each other. Accordingly, the fans should look forward to a lot of hits this week. Including the duel in the Stade Vélodrome between OM and RCSA.
According to bookmaker odds, Marseille against Strasbourg is the clear favorite in their own stadium. Not an easy assessment, especially since the Phocéens have not won too much in recent years.
On the other hand, the guests from Alsace travel to the southern French port city as the overall winner in the Coupe de la Ligue. The team of Thierry Laurey accordingly knows how cup fights work, which is a noteworthy side note for Marseille against Strasbourg for the forecast.
The bottom line, however, is that the Olympiens, who have been unbeaten for nine consecutive competitive games under André Villas-Boas (three wins, six draws), have better momentum. The most promising in our eyes is therefore to play tip 1 at Marseille against Strasbourg.
Marseille:
Overall, the goalless draw at home against Angers SCO last weekend was far too little. After all, the guests remained completely pale and ended up with just 33% possession of the ball on not a single shot on goal.
A substitute weakened Olympique Marseille still missed his few chances and had to watch in the end how the gap on leaders Paris Saint-Germain grew to ten points. Hardly anyone could dream of being able to play for the title this season.
After all, the gap to pursuer Stade Rennes remained, who also played only a draw and thus remain five points behind l’OM. So the return to the Champions League could well become a reality if the series continues. Including the cup competitions, there are now nine games in a row without defeat, although the Phocéens have won only three of them in six draws in regular time.
All the better that with the game against Angers SCO three yellow cards were paid. In addition to playmaker Dimitri Payet, coach André Villas-Boas lacked two key players on his defensive: center-back Boubacar Kamara, who is mainly used as a clearer before the back four, and winger Bouna Sarr, who mostly acts as a right-back for the Olympics.
All of them are now operational again against Racing Strasbourg. All three were also involuntarily spared at the weekend, which means that the very demanding English Week loses some of its horror. In addition, Morgan Sanson, associated with Hertha BSC, is given a forced break. He in turn saw the fifth yellow card against Angers and has to pause in the Coupe de France.
On Sunday, Girondins de Bordeaux went away in a prestigious duel against a long-term rival who had recently lost track and who ended his series of defeats on time at the weekend.
Nevertheless, at Marseille against Strasbourg, the bookmakers’ odds in the direction of the men of André Villas-Boas. The reason for this is certainly the attractive home balance. In Ligue 1, only one of the previous eleven games of the season has been lost at the Stade Vélodrome. The goalless draw against Angers marked the 24th out of 33 possible points in front of their own spectators.
It is precisely these values that need to be brought back on the pitch. After all, the Coupe de France would be a title that, after a long absence, looks good again in the showcases of the clubhouse of the only French Champions League winner of all time. OM’s last win in 1989 was the country’s most important cup competition.
Strasbourg:
As overall winner in the Coupe de la Ligue, Racing Strasbourg was given the right to potentially represent France in the Europa League despite the meager eleventh place in the final table of Ligue 1. However, three qualification rounds had to be survived first.
After the 1-0 in the final playoffs against Eintracht Frankfurt, everything looked like after returning to the group phase of the competition in which “Le Racing” was last represented in the 2005/06 season – at that time the Europa League was still called the UEFA Cup. The second leg in Hessen ended with a sobering 0: 3.
Six games in the qualifying rounds, which ultimately did not bring anything further, ended up being booked for the Alsatians, whose league start had to suffer from the multiple loads. In the meantime, however, Thierry Laurey’s troops have recovered.
In Ligue 1, “Les Bleus” won four of the last five games and climbed to eighth place in the current table thanks to the weekend away win in Monaco. Fourth place, which would lead directly to the Europa League group stage without qualification, is only three points behind.
Meanwhile, in the last round of the cup, the Alsatians threw the lower-class club Angoulême Charente FC 5: 1 in a high arc and fulfilled this mandatory task with flying colors. Only in the Coupe de la Ligue was a possible defense against the title in the quarter-finals of Stade Reims blocked. “Le Racing” had a worse day in the penalty shoot-out.
This means that Thierry Laurey’s team can now concentrate entirely on the remaining two competitions, in which there is also a lot at stake this week. In the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France, “Les Bleus” have only appeared once in the last 18 years. Ligue 1 has not had a single top 10 finish in the past 20 years.
Both could be promoted by bringing down two top French teams against Marseille and Lille, although it is quite risky to place a tip at Marseille against Strasbourg on the advancement of the Alsatians.
After all, “Le Racing” lost seven of their eleven away games in Ligue 1 and scored only eight goals in foreign positions in all these games. Only five clubs were less dangerous in the distance.
Nevertheless, the cup, which does not need a second leg and is decided after 120 goalless minutes, is known to write its own laws. “Les Bleus”, who already won on penalties on the way to overall victory in the Coupe de la Ligue 2019 away from the Stade Vélodrome, definitely don’t travel to the important port city.
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