On the 13th of February, Metz and Olympique Marseille will play a match in Longeville-lès-Metz in a meeting of these two Ligue 1 teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 7 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. Metz is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Troyes. Neither Troyes nor Metz could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 9 and 6 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Metz is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches, while 2nd placed Olympique Marseille is fresh off their 1-4 loss against Nice. Melvin Bard scored the first goal for Olympique Marseille on an own goal in the 3rd minute, but Amine Gouiri got the equalizer for Nice in the 10th minute Finally they completed the comback victory in the 29th minute on a goal by Justin Kluivert to cap off a wild match. With 18 points in their last 10 matches Olympique Marseille should be reasonably happy with their performance.
On Nov 7th, Olympique Marseille hosted Metz in their last match together. Olympique Marseille and Metz battled to a 0-0 draw in front of almost 62000. Olympique Marseille had 17 on net, and Metz had 14, but no one could beat the goalie, and the game ended in a 0-0 draw,.
Olympique Marseille is fortunate enough to have Arkadiusz Milik in top form. In the last 5 matches the attacker has scored 4 goals. Metz hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last 5 matches are Boubacar Traore and Ibrahima Niane, and they each have 1 goal.