Clermont Foot vs Olympique Marseille Prediction: It’s a new dawn for Marseille

Olympique Marseille put 4 goals past Montpellier last weekend to put all doubts about their league form out of the way. They also advanced to the Quarter Final of the Europa League last week. Now in this game, Olympique Marseille will take a trip to the Stade Gabriel Montpied to face bottom-placed Clermont Foot. 

Clermont Foot are struggling at the moment and their results have been poor for some time now. Expecting a win from the Clermont Foot at the moment might seem too extreme given their recent form but they are looking desperate to get out of the relegation zone and that might be all they need to turn their results around.

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Clermont Foot 63 are the poorest team in the Ligue 1 right now and they are currently at the bottom of the table with only 17 points from 23 matches they played in. 

Clermont Foot have not won any of their last 6 games in all competition as they had 3 defeats and 3 draws in those 6 games. 

Last weekend they struggled to pick up a point against OGC Nice. All thanks to Mory Diaw who saved a penalty kick in the 75th minute. According to the stats, Clermont Foot had just 42% possession, but they were able to get 5 shots on target. 

Pascal Gastien deployed a 4-2-3-1 formation in the game against OGC Nice. He had hoped to maintain a balance and keep things tight at the back and it worked. Habib Gonalons struggled to make a significant impact on the game and he was replaced in the 46th minute by Habib Keita. Shammar Nicholson also didn't impress in the attack and was replaced by Komnen Andric. 

Pascal Gastien will have a big decision on the team selection especially with Habib Keita looking like a better addition to the starting lineup.

Olympique Marseille

Olympique Marseille seemed to have turned a corner since the appointment of Jean-Louis Gasset. He had an instant impact on the team and that was clearly seen in the team's performance against Shakhtar Donetsk in the Europa League Knockout Round. They won 3-1 after playing a 2-2 draw in the first leg. And in his second game in charge, Marseille trashed Montpellier 4-1 last weekend. 

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a brace while Iliman Ndiaye and Falaye Sacko (OG) scored once in the win over Montpellier. The team looked brilliant in the 4-3-3 formation setup of Jean-Louis Gasset and this looks like the beginning of a new era of attacking football for Olympique Marseille. They had 58% possession, 6 shots on target and 7 corner kicks in the game. 

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang seems to be coping just fine on the left attacking side with Iliman Ndiaye playing down the middle. He had 4 shots on target but missed 2 big chances in the game. 

It's almost certain that Jean-Louis Gasset will retain this setup when against Clermont Foot and the aim is clear for the team and that's to win.

Head to Head

According to the h2h, Olympique Marseille and Clermont Foot have played only 6 matches against each other. Olympique Marseille won 5 of the 6 matches while Clermont Foot won only 1.

Analysis and Predictions

There's a lot of excitement around the Olympique Marseille team and they are playing very fine at the moment. So, it's going to be difficult to stop them especially when they are against Clermont Foot who are the poorest side in the league.

According to the h2h, Olympique Marseille have won the last 3 meetings and Clermont Foot failed to keep a clean sheet in those 3 games. There were less than 2.5 goals scored in 4 of their last 5 meetings and Olympique Marseille scored first in 5 of the last 6 meetings. And there were also less than 10.5 corners played in 5 of the last 6 games.

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