Week 38 features a match on Saturday May 21st, where Olympique Marseille hosts Strasbourg in a Ligue 1 match. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 21 degrees, a perfect day for football. Olympique Marseille sits at 3rd place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-2 loss against Rennes. Benjamin Bourigeaud struck first for Rennes in the 12th minute, then Lovro Majer added another in the 35th minute In the end, Olympique Marseille was frustrated by Rennes’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Rennes ended the match with the shutout victory. With 21 points in their last 10 matches Olympique Marseille should be reasonably happy with their performance, while in their last match, 5th placed Strasbourg, recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Clermont. Adrien Thomasson scored the first goal for Strasbourg in the 28th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster At the end of 90 a dissapointed Clermont couldn’t manage to score, and Strasbourg took the shutout win. Strasbourg should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 19 points in their last 10 matches.
On the 12th of December, Strasbourg hosted Olympique Marseille in their last match together. Olympique Marseille took the match by a score of 2 to 0. Dieng struck first for Olympique Marseille in the 62nd minute on a feed from Luis Henrique, then Duje Ćaleta-Car added another in the 82nd minute In the end, Strasbourg was frustrated by Olympique Marseille’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Olympique Marseille ended the match with the shutout victory.
Strasbourg’s most prolific scorer has been Kévin Gameiro. He has netted two goals over the last 5 matches. Both Dimitri Payet and Gerson have been the hottest scorers for Olympique Marseille in the last 5 each having scored 2 goals each
Jorge Luis Sampaoli Moya’s Olympique Marseille squad will be without Leonardo Balerdi and Dimitri Payet, while Julien Stéphan’s squad will be without Dimitri Liénard, Majeed Waris, Lucas Perrin and Nordin Kandil.