Angers vs Marseille Prediction & Betting Tips

Form lines heading in opposite directions

Angers have been up and down at home lately: a win over Troyes, a draw with Le Havre, then a loss to Rennes sandwiched between an away win at Auxerre and a home defeat to Lille. Nothing dominant, but competitive.

Angers: 20 completed matches; Marseille: 20 completed matches.

Angers

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

25

Conceded

31

Difference

-6

Marseille

20 matches

Win

40% 8 / 20

Draw

5% 1 / 20

Loss

55% 11 / 20

Scored

26

Conceded

31

Difference

-5

Marseille's picture is bleaker. Their last four competitive outings have all ended in defeat, including a home loss to PSG and a heavy away loss to Beşiktaş in the Europa League. Across their last 20 matches they've won eight, drawn one and lost eleven, which points to a side struggling for consistency rather than a blip.

Marseille's recent losing run is the more pressing form story going into this one.

Comparative Team Statistics: Angers vs Marseille

A fixture that's rarely been low-scoring

These two have met plenty of times down the years, and goals have followed them often, plenty of 1-1s and 2-2s, but also some big away wins for Marseille. The most recent meeting, back in January, went 5-2 to Marseille in Angers.

Before that it was a 2-2 draw in Marseille and a couple of Marseille wins further back. History leans toward Marseille finding the net even when their form elsewhere has dipped.

Marseille's head-to-head record suggests they can still be dangerous in this matchup, even out of form.

Where they sit early on

It's still early days, just five league games in for both sides, so this is a snapshot rather than a settled picture. Angers sit seventh with seven points from two wins, a draw and two defeats.

Marseille, by contrast, are down in seventeenth with only three points from five games, having won just once. That's a striking position for a club of their stature this early in the season.

Angers currently have the healthier league position, though five games is a small sample.

Key names to watch

Marseille's front line still has a reliable focal point in Alexis Gouiri, who's scored four goals in his last five appearances and also chipped in an assist. If Marseille are going to arrest their slide, he looks like the man most likely to do it.

At the other end, Angers have leaned on Ayyoub El Ouazzani for creativity, with two assists in his last five games. Marseille's Timothy Weah has picked up a couple of cards recently too, which is worth bearing in mind given how stretched their season has looked so far.

Key player statistics: Angers vs Marseille

Angers:

Best assist providers:

A. El Ouazzani - 2

Penalty cards:

U. Simbakoli x 1

Marseille:

Best scorers:

A. Gouiri - 4

Best assist providers:

A. Gouiri - 1

Penalty cards:

T. Weah x 1 x 2

K. Abdallah x 1