📏 Form Guide

Marseille

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Marseille will be wanting a better result here after a 2-1 Ligue 1 loss in their previous game against Monaco.

In that game, Marseille managed 52% possession and 19 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. The scorer for Marseille was Amine Gouiri (85'). For their opponents, Monaco got 7 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Aleksandr Golovin (59') and Folarin Balogun (74') scored for Monaco.

Habib Beye's Marseille have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a sum total of 8 times in their prior 6 outings. At the other end, the tally of goals that have been scored against them in those fixtures is 8.

Going into this one, Marseille have not been beaten in the league by FC Metz in their last 10 games. A long run without a loss.

FC Metz

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In their previous fixture, Metz drew 0-0 in the Ligue 1 tie with Nantes.

In that game, FC Metz had 66% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 5 on target. At the other end, Nantes had 6 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

The trend of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring FC Metz has become apparent recently. Examining their last six games reveals that this has occurred 5 times. During these clashes, their opponents have managed a goal tally of 11 while FC Metz have scored 3. Nevertheless, we’ll just have to find out if that pattern will be sustained here in this game.

Leading up to this clash, FC Metz:

• haven't won against Marseille when having played them away from home in the previous 8 league matches. Very poor away form.
• haven't been defeated by Marseille when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 8 league games. What a terrible run of away results.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 23/05/2021 shows us that Marseille have won 2 of these games & Metz 0, with the number of drawn results being 4.

14 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 9 for Les Olympiens and 5 created by Les Grenats. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The last league match featuring the two was Ligue 1 match day 7 on 04/10/2025 when it ended FC Metz 0-3 Marseille.

On that day, FC Metz managed 38% possession and 4 shots at goal with 1 on target.

On the other side, Marseille got 21 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Paixão (51'), Matt O'Riley (69') and Amine Gouiri (76') scored.

The match was refereed by Clément Turpin.

ℹ️ Team News: Marseille

In our view, Les Olympiens will probably line up in a 4-4-2 formation for this game, handing starts to Geronimo Rulli, Benjamin Pavard, Leonardo Balerdi, Facundo Medina, Timothy Weah, Quinten Timber, P. Hoejbjerg, Igor Paixao, Hamed Traore, P. Aubameyang and Amine Gouiri.

📰 Team News: Metz

We are inclined to think that Les Grenats could decide to make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup with a starting lineup of Pape Sy, Koffi Kouao, Sadibou Sane, Urie-Michel Mboula, Maxime Colin, Jean-Philippe Gbamin, Jessy Deminguet, Bouna Sarr, Gauthier Hein, Giorgi Tsitaishvili and H. Mouhamadou Diallo.

🔮 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that FC Metz are certainly able to breach the defence of this Marseille lineup, although that is unlikely to be as many as they will have scored against them.

Our selection here is for a 2-1 winning margin for Marseille at the end of this one. Let’s see what happens here.

Renata Leite, 09:04 08/04/2026