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One-time French first-division giants, Olympique Marseille, travel to 4th-placed Lille’s home, the Stade Pierre-Mauroy, for their Round 28 Ligue 1 fixture on Friday night as they try to finish the league season on a much better note than they started it.
Locked in a close battle for 7th place with two other teams in Rennes and Reims, who are also on 39 points, Marseille will be hoping to turn around their recent form of three straight losses in all competitions.
Lille Have Not Lost at Home in 14 Games
The last time Paulo Fonseca’s team lost a home game was 7 months ago in September 2023 in a league game with Reims, and have since gone 14 games unbeaten in all competitions.
Lille’s form in front of their fans at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy has been so great that if there were a league table for only home games, they would be first as they have won 30 points from their home games this season, at least 1 more than any other side.
To further emphasize Lille's dominance at home, it has been over 14 months since Les Dogues failed to score a goal in front of their fans, playing out a goalless draw with Clermont at the start of February 2023.
Fonseca's men have since then found the back of the net in an outrageous 27 home matches, including each of their last 21 in the top flight.
Marseille’s Need to Rediscover Gasset’s Honeymoon Form
Marseille’s new boss, Jean-Louis Gasset, after taking over from Gennaro Gattuso, managed to go on a 5-game winning streak, with the biggest of those wins were a home thumping of Villarreal in the UEFA Europa League and a 5-1 league win over Clermont.
The winning run, now chalked down to a honeymoon phase, appears to be over with Marseille having lost their last 3 games in a row but if they want anything out of this game versus Lille on Friday, Marseille will have to rediscover what made them so good in the honeymoon phase.
Olympique Marseille managed a 0-0 draw against Lille at home when the two sides met in the league earlier in the season, and will hope they can repeat their home form in this away game especially seeing as their away form has been one of the worst in the league.
Match Stats
Lille are ranked 5th in goals scored per match (1.4 goals) while Marseille is ranked 3rd in goals scored per match (1.5 goals).
Lille have kept the most clean sheets in the competition (14) while Marseille haven't scored in their last 3 matches in all competitions.
Lille have managed to score 1+ goals in their last 21 home matches in Ligue 1 while Marseille have in each of their last 17 away Ligue 1 matches, allowed 1 or more goals.
You can check out the Lille vs Marseille Ligue 1 game on MSport here.
