2026/2027 season

Ligue 1

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Olympique de Marseille
Head coach: Bruno Genesio · 4-2-3-1
Rank
14th
Pts
6
P
6
Form
🟠 Poor

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
6/10
Attack
6/10
Defence
2/10
Form
2/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:High

14th with 6 pts from 6 matches: 2 wins, 0 draws, 4 defeats.

9 goals scored, 8 conceded.

This Sunday, we are entitled to a poster between Angers and the OM on behalf of the 7th day of Ligue 1. In front of his audience, Angers articulates in a 4-3-3 diagram. Anthony Lopes is in the (...)

Foot Mercato · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

14th of Ligue 1, the OM is facing its downside neighbour, the SCO of Angers (13th) this Sunday. This is what Bruno Genesio and Stéphane Gilli should book for this meeting.Tomeur de (...)

Foot Mercato · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

L-OM wants to capitalize on its success against Troyes last weekend (0-2). Bruno Genesio unveiled this morning the group selected for the trip to Angers, this Sunday at 15:00. A group always (...)

Foot Mercato · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

At the bottom of the abyss after missing the World Cup qualification with Italy, Gennaro Gattuso, the former OM coach, re-launched at Lazio, unexpected co-leader of Serie A before going to challenge the Juventus Turin Sunday (20:45 pm).

L'Équipe · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Wvs ES Troyes AC (A) · 2-0
Lvs Paris Saint-Germain FC (H) · 1-2
Lvs Stade Rennais FC 1901 (A) · 0-1
Lvs Paris FC (H) · 2-3
Lvs AS Monaco FC (A) · 0-2
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9 scored / 8 conceded over 6 matches played
Rest: 7 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
1W - 0D - 2L
Away form
1W - 0D - 2L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
1.0
Goals conceded per match
1.6
At home
3 scored · 5 conceded in 2 matches
Away
2 scored · 3 conceded in 3 matches
Over 2.5 goals
2 of 5
Both teams score
2 of 5
Clean sheets
1 of 5
Failed to score
2 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Olympique de Marseille play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-2-3-1
Philosophy
Vertical play, quick transitions, wingers given responsibility for the finishing.
Attacking strengths
Attacking density with Gouiri up front and the flanks driven by Paixão and Harit/Abdelli.
Defensive solidity
Clean sheet in the only match played, but a very small sample.
Pressing
Fairly high, in keeping with Genesio's stylistic heritage.
Transitions
Quick, geared towards runs in behind.
StrengthCollective intensity, a comfortable opening win that builds confidence.
WeaknessSquad constrained by a severe financial crisis: no signings registered this summer (the only club in Europe's 5 major leagues in this situation, along with Athletic Bilbao), and the departure of several key players (Greenwood, Aubameyang, Medina, Rulli, Pavard).

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
Confidence is at its lowest since the defeat at Monaco and the close of a window without a single arrival. President Stéphane Richard himself acknowledged an “unprecedented” market, made up solely of departures, with the wage bill cut by 30 to 35%. The squad now numbers only 23 players, of whom just 14 survive from the spring, and Bruno Genesio will have to work with several very young players with no top-level experience. Hosting Paris FC on Sunday therefore comes in a context where one more injury would unbalance the whole thing.
Coach / players / board relationship
The relationship between the head coach and his board came close to breaking point over the summer: “We were not far from breaking point,” admitted Stéphane Richard, referring to tense daily exchanges over the Igor Paixão situation, which he says he personally fought to keep. The president insists, however, that Genesio never threatened to resign, something the head coach himself had said on 29 August while adding that he had not imagined finding himself with no signings on 29 August. As a sign of easing, the board lifted the sanction that had stripped Pierre-Emile Højbjerg of the armband, Richard leaving the final decision to the coach. Three or four senior players also agreed to extend while cutting their pay, which reflects a form of internal solidarity despite the crisis.
Mood with the supporters
Anxiety dominates among Marseille's public, fed by a squad reduced to 23 players and by the complete absence of signings. Stéphane Richard's remarks on RMC, confirming that Frank McCourt was not selling the club but was looking to open up its capital, revived the debate about OM's institutional future without providing any concrete timetable. For Paris FC's visit, the away section will be open and supervised, a usual arrangement with the Paris club, while PSG supporters remain barred from travelling to the Vélodrome. Clément Turpin's appointment, whose record with OM is clearly negative (16 wins in 48 matches), was immediately noted by the local press.
Pressure on the head coach
High. Bruno Genesio has to meet a European objective with a depleted squad, with no possibility of reinforcement before January, and after a summer in which his relationship with the board was publicly described as close to breaking point by the president himself. He had to deny any intention of resigning as early as 29 August. The slightest slip against Paris FC, before the Mediterranean derby and then OM-PSG on 20 September, will immediately revive the subject.
Club objectives
Stéphane Richard refused to set a precise league position but framed it: “OM is a European club. Europe is part of the club's identity.” The stated ambition is therefore to regain a qualifying place despite a wage bill cut by a third and a squad of 23 players. The board accepts a season of financial transition, with the idea of opening the capital to “very selectively” chosen partners to restore room for manoeuvre in the medium term.
Recent internal tensions
The tensions have moved from the pitch to the boardroom: a one-way window, tense exchanges between Genesio and the board over Paixão, and a sanction imposed and then lifted on Højbjerg over the captain's armband, a decision the head coach had publicly disavowed. The pay cuts accepted by three or four senior players remain a sensitive subject in an already reduced dressing room.
Absences
InjuredGeoffrey Kondogbia — Injured in the second half at Monaco on 30 August, he had to be replaced; the exact nature of the injury and the length of absence have not been specified.
DoubtfulTochukwu Nnadi — On at half-time at Monaco to replace Quinten Timber, he felt muscle discomfort late in the match on 30 August.
DoubtfulAngel Gomes — He finished the match at Monaco physically limited on 30 August, without the club having released a diagnosis.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Angers SCO — Olympique de Marseille

AwaySunday 18 October at 15:00Matchday 7
It's today. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says
  • DIRECT. Angers-OM: suivez le match de la 7e journée de Ligue 1 en liveThree days after a new disillusionment against Olympiacos in the Europa League (0-1), Olympique de Marseille will try to bounce back this Sunday on Angers' lawn in Ligue 1 (15h). A second-game duel between the 13th and 14th of the championship.RMC Sport · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated
  • Angers - OM : les compositions officiellesThis Sunday, we are entitled to a poster between Angers and the OM on behalf of the 7th day of Ligue 1. In front of his audience, Angers articulates in a 4-3-3 diagram. Anthony Lopes is in the (...)Foot Mercato · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated
  • Angers - OM : les compositions probables14th of Ligue 1, the OM is facing its downside neighbour, the SCO of Angers (13th) this Sunday. This is what Bruno Genesio and Stéphane Gilli should book for this meeting.Tomeur de (...)Foot Mercato · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated
  • OM : le groupe face à Angers toujours sans HøjbjergL-OM wants to capitalize on its success against Troyes last weekend (0-2). Bruno Genesio unveiled this morning the group selected for the trip to Angers, this Sunday at 15:00. A group always (...)Foot Mercato · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated
1.65
xG / match
1.22
xGA / match
26 matches — 2024-2025 season · 2026-2027 sample still too small (1 match) for reliable xG; only data from the 2024-2025 season could be found as a reference point (source: FootyStats), to be updated as soon as a source provides 2026-2027 xG.
Analysis
OM travel to Monaco this Sunday 30 August (20:45, Stade Louis-II, matchday 2) for a clash between two teams that won on matchday 1. The Marseille squad is weakened by two pieces of news that emerged in the final hours before kick-off, well after the last weekly update: Leonardo Balerdi, captain of the defence and already reported injured (calf), has in fact reached an agreement with AS Roma for a loan with an option to buy (made official on 29 August by Fabrizio Romano) and is due to undergo his medical in Rome this weekend — an exit that looks more like a done departure than a simple unavailability; and Igor Paixão, doubtful all week with thigh pain, was officially left out of the squad this Sunday. These two absences weigh on a squad already trimmed by the club's financial crisis (no signings registered this summer). On the other side, Monaco are not spared either: Folarin Balogun (individual training), Edan Diop (partial return) and Ansu Fati (doubtful, calf) limit Monaco's attacking options — only the return of Matthis Abline to the squad counts as good news for Filipe Luís.
Sources: AS Monaco — calendrier officiel, FootMarseille — accord Balerdi/AS Roma, La Diagonale — Paixão absent, AS Monaco — groupe convoqué
Analysis updated on 30 Aug 2026 — matchday-eve/matchday cycle, separate from the weekly refresh.
Prediction
EstimateAngers SCO — Olympique de Marseille
32 %
1 · Angers SCO
24 %
X · draw
44 %
2 · Olympique de Marseille
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 6 matches played by Angers SCO, 6 matches by Olympique de Marseille. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 170 goals scored over 116 team-matches played (18 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.47 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Angers SCO — attack7 in 6 matches0.800.90
    Angers SCO — defence10 in 6 matches1.141.07
    Olympique de Marseille — attack9 in 6 matches1.021.01
    Olympique de Marseille — defence8 in 6 matches0.910.95
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.50 for Angers SCO and 0.50 for Olympique de Marseille. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.61 goal scored on average by the host against 1.30 by the visitor, over the 46 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.24; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.42, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.10. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Angers SCO at home: 1.00 pts/match versus 1.17 overall over 3 matches → ×0.961
    Olympique de Marseille away: 1.00 pts/match versus 1.00 overall over 3 matches → ×1.000
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λAngers SCO = 1.47 × 0.90 × 0.95 × 1.10 × 0.961 = 1.32
    λOlympique de Marseille = 1.47 × 1.01 × 1.07 × 1.000 = 1.58
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 31.9%, draw 24.5%, away win 43.5% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 11.4%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Jeffrey de Lange
  • Jelle Van Neck
  • Théo Vermot
Defenders
  • Conrad Jaden Egan-Riley
  • Derek Cornelius
  • Bamo Meïté
  • Timothy WeahC
  • Ulisses Garcia
  • Emerson Palmieri
  • Nayef Aguerd
Midfielders
  • Tochukwu Nnadi
  • Angel Gomes
  • Himad Abdelli
  • Geoffrey Kondogbia
  • Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
  • Quinten Timber
  • Amine Harit
Forwards
  • Amine Gouiri
  • Neal Maupay
  • Igor Paixão
  • Faris Moumbagna
  • Tadjidine Mmadi
  • Keyliane Abdallah
Squad last verified on 30 Aug 2026 — source: om.fr (official website).

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
Angers - OM: official compositions
Source: Foot Mercato
rss18 Oct 2026
OM wants to "correct" on arrested kicks
Source: L'Équipe
rss18 Oct 2026
Angers - OM : likely compositions
Source: Foot Mercato
rss18 Oct 2026
What time and on what channel see Angers-OM in Ligue 1?
Source: L'Équipe
rss16 Oct 2026
What does OM have to do to raise their head in the Europa League? (After Marseille)
Source: RMC Sport — Ligue 1
rss16 Oct 2026
OM: 10 years at the head of the club and zero trophy... Di Meco takes stock of Frank McCourt!
Source: RMC Sport — Ligue 1
Institutional2 Sep 2026
On RMC, president Stéphane Richard put figures on OM's financial effort: the wage bill has been cut by “30 to 35%” compared with last season, and three or four of the highest earners agreed to extend while reducing their annual cost.
Source: Maxifoot
Institutional2 Sep 2026
Stéphane Richard clarified Frank McCourt's intentions: “The club is not for sale,” but the American, sole shareholder for ten years, is willing to welcome partners into the capital, with a choice intended to be “very selective”. No concrete process is under way at this stage.
Source: FootMarseille
Club2 Sep 2026
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg is allowed to take back the captain's armband, of which he had been stripped by board decision after refusing a transfer to Newcastle. “For me, yes. Now, it really is the coach's decision. I will not interfere with that,” said Stéphane Richard.
Source: Foot Mercato
Club2 Sep 2026
The window leaves OM with a squad of only 23 players, 14 of them survivors from the spring: eight defenders, six midfielders and six forwards, after the departures of Greenwood, Medina, Timber, Aubameyang and Rulli and Balerdi's loan.
Source: Maxifoot
Other2 Sep 2026
Clément Turpin has been appointed to referee OM v Paris FC, on Sunday 6 September at 20:45 at the Vélodrome. The 44-year-old referee has taken charge of 48 OM matches for 16 wins, 10 draws and 22 defeats, with seven penalties awarded to Marseille against ten to their opponents.
Source: FootMarseille
Supporters1 Sep 2026
Paris FC supporters will be allowed into the away end at the Vélodrome on Sunday, under supervision — unlike PSG's, who remain barred from travelling to Marseille.
Source: Titres Presse (L'Équipe)
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Quinten Timber left OM for Crystal Palace on deadline day, for around €18m, having been signed for €4.5m from Feyenoord in 2024.
Source: Foot Mercato
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Leonardo Balerdi was loaned to AS Roma in the closing hours of the transfer window.
Source: Orange Sport
Injury31 Aug 2026
Geoffrey Kondogbia had to leave the pitch in the 59th minute at Monaco with a thigh problem; the club was still awaiting details on the severity of the alert at the time of publication.
Source: But! Football Club
Club31 Aug 2026
After the defeat at Monaco, Bruno Genesio closed the door on any additions: “There will be no signings. We need 2-3 departures,” said the Marseille head coach.
Source: Top Mercato
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.