Marseille welcome the visitors Nice in the French Ligue 1 – Round 28. The match will be held on Sunday, March, 10th, at the Stade Velodrome (Marseille).
Closer to the end of the campaign, Marseille finally start to resemble themselves. Having attained 13 points in 5 previous rounds, they are presently the only holders of the 4th place in the standings, sitting just 5 points behind the third-placed Lyon (whom they will welcome 3 rounds before the season finishes) and 10 points behind the second-placed Lille. Marseille will most likely fight for the Champions League, maybe even for automatic promotion there, without competing in the knockouts. Lille’s calendar is also tough – they need to clash with Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain, so, will probably drop points, and not once. That said, Marseille should rack up points on their own. The coming fixture against Nice is a good chance to do so.
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In the last round, the visitors managed to break the 3-match winless streak by the victory over Strasbourg, which enabled them to climb the 8th line in the table. Presently, Nice run 4 points behind their Sunday hosts, but the breakaway will probably increase tomorrow.
The thing is that the visitors lost in 3 last outings in a row. Their defeat to Lyon is understandable, but they also conceded to the twelfth-placed Angers and the seventeenth-placed Amiens SC. Also, they lost in 4 previous head-to-heads against Marseille. Over the span of the last 16 years, Nice traveled to Marseille 18 times. In those trips, they attained only 4 wins and suffered 13 losses. Marseille won 8 of 13 home fixtures. Their squad are much stronger than the visitors’. The ex-Nice attacker Mario Balotelli has made 4 goals in 6 rounds (while in Nice he did not score a goal in 10 matches). Considering all the above, we assume that the Champions League hunters Marseille will not drop a point to their comfortable opponents tomorrow.
Prediction for the match: Marseille to win home.
