Marseille 4:0 Strasbourg: Ligue 1 Match Result

Match report

Marseille beat Strasbourg 4-0 in the opening round of Ligue 1's regular season at the CEPAC Vélodrome on Thursday evening. The hosts ran out comfortable winners as the visitors struggled to find any foothold after going down to ten men. By then the shape of the game had been set.

Amin Gouiri broke the deadlock after the interval with a well-taken goal in the forty-sixth minute. The match turned in the fifty-ninth minute when Samir El Mourabet was sent off for Strasbourg. And here's the thing — the visitors simply could not recover from that blow.

Igor Paixão won a penalty on the hour mark and Gouiri put it away, then immediately collected another spot-kick two minutes later to complete his hat-trick. The visitors had already made three changes by then, including both yellow-card winners Samuel Amo-Ameyaw and Sékou Mara. Kheïreddine Abdallah added a fifth in the eighty-ninth minute and Pierre-Emile Højbjerg made it 4-0 with two goals in stoppage time.

The statistics tell the story without elaboration. Marseille held 67 per cent possession and registered eight shots on target against Strasbourg's two. The hosts created three big chances while the visitors managed none, and their expected goals figure of 0.18 tells you everything about the quality of chances on offer.

Both sides sit on three points after two games, Marseille eighth and Strasbourg tenth, so the table hardly moves in either direction. What this match showed was how quickly a game can unravel when the wheels come off early. The hosts will take confidence from the performance, but it is too soon to draw any real conclusions from a first-round fixture.

Prepared from match data

Key numbers

Possession, % 67 – 33

Shots on target 8 – 2

Shots off target 4 – 3

Expected goals 1.86 – 0.18

⚽ 46' A. Gouiri — Goal 🟨 48' Samuel Amo-Ameyaw — Yellow card 🟥 59' Samir El Mourabet — Red card 🟨 61' Sékou Mara — Yellow card 65' Igor Paixão — var_penalty ⚽ 66' A. Gouiri — Penalty ⚽ 68' A. Gouiri — Penalty ⇄ 69' S. Amo-Ameyaw — Substitution ⇄ 69' D. Sousa — Substitution ⇄ 69' S. Mara — Substitution ⇄ 75' C. Egan-Riley — Substitution ⇄ 79' G. Antwi — Substitution 🟨 79' Nayef Aguerd — Yellow card ⇄ 79' S. Nanasi — Substitution ⇄ 83' G. Kondogbia — Substitution ⇄ 83' H. Abdelli — Substitution ⇄ 83' A. Harit — Substitution ⚽ 89' K. Abdallah — Goal ⚽ 90' P. Hojbjerg — Goal ⇄ 90+1' A. Gomes — Substitution ⚽ 90+6' P. Hojbjerg — Goal

Match events

46' Marseille Goal A. Gouiri assist: A. Gomes
48' Strasbourg Yellow card Samuel Amo-Ameyaw
59' Strasbourg Red card Samir El Mourabet
61' Strasbourg Yellow card Sékou Mara
65' Marseille var_penalty Igor Paixão
66' Marseille Penalty A. Gouiri
68' Marseille Penalty A. Gouiri
69' Strasbourg Substitution S. Amo-Ameyaw off: G. Reyna
69' Strasbourg Substitution D. Sousa off: P. Demba
69' Strasbourg Substitution S. Mara off: J. Ortega
75' Marseille Substitution C. Egan-Riley off: N. Aguerd
79' Strasbourg Substitution G. Antwi off: M. Del Blanco
79' Marseille Yellow card Nayef Aguerd
79' Strasbourg Substitution S. Nanasi off: F. Balde
83' Marseille Substitution G. Kondogbia off: D. Cornelius
83' Marseille Substitution H. Abdelli off: T. Nnadi
83' Marseille Substitution A. Harit off: K. Abdallah
89' Marseille Goal K. Abdallah
90' Marseille Goal P. Hojbjerg
90+1' Marseille Substitution A. Gomes off: N. Maupay
90+6' Marseille Goal P. Hojbjerg

Statistics

67 Possession, % 33

8 Shots on target 2

4 Shots off target 3

1.86 Expected goals 0.18

3 Big chances 0

3 Corners 4

6 Fouls 12

12 Free kicks 6

0 Offsides 0

1 Yellow cards 2

0 Red cards 1

4 Goal kicks 11

19 Throw-ins 9

All statistics

8/1457% Aerial duels 6/1443%

98 Backward passes 55

2 Blocked shots 0

11 Clearances 24

2/1513% Crosses 1/128%

7/1164% Dribbles 9/1850%

0.81 Expected assists 0.27

61 Failed passes 51

2 Goalkeeper saves 4

8 Interceptions 8

7 Key passes 5

16/3447% Long passes 18/4144%

124 Passes into the final third 46

386 Passes in the opposition half 138

316 Passes in own half 211

0.57 Shot accuracy 0.40

5 Shots from outside the box 2

9 Shots inside the box 3

11/1765% Tackles 13/1968%

687 Total passes 337

Line-ups

Marseille

Starting XI
#	Player	number
12	Jeffrey de Lange	12
4	Conrad Jaden Egan-Riley	4
19	Geoffrey Edwin Kondogbia	19
22	Timothy Tarpeh Weah	22
33	Emerson	33
7	Adilson Angel Abreu de Almeida Gomes	7
8	Himad Said Abdelli	8
23	Pierre-Emile Højbjerg	23
9	Amine Ferid Gouiri	9
14	Igor Guilherme Barbosa da Paixão	14
77	Amine Harit	77

Substitutes
#	Player	number
92	Théo Vermot	92
13	Derek Austin Cornelius	13
21	Nayef Aguerd	21
25	Ulisses Alexandre Garcia Lopes	25
74	Kelyann Bezahaf	74
6	Tochukwu Nnadi	6
11	Neal Maupay	11
43	Tadjidine Mmadi	43
48	K. Abdallah	48

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Strasbourg

Starting XI
#	Player	number
1	Filip Jörgensen	1
2	Andrew Omobamidele	2
16	G. Antwi	16
22	Guéla Maho Lewis Doué	22
24	L. Hogsbjerg	24
7	Samuel Amo-Ameyaw	7
11	Algot Sebastian Nanasi	11
23	D. Sousa	23
29	Samir El Moubarek	29
80	J. Yassin	80
14	Sékou Mara	14

Substitutes
#	Player	number
12	Miłosz Piekutowski	12
4	Jeyland Yahir Mitchell Baltodano	4
15	Mateo Del Blanco	15
10	Giovanni Alejandro Reyna	10
17	Mathis Amougou	17
21	Pape Diop	21
19	F. Balde	19
30	J. Ortega	30
37	Gianni Codia	37