The Phoca team meets the Aube squad with a clear objective: to reclaim a place closer to the top and push back toward sub-leadership territory.
Olympique de Marseille and Troyes face off at the Orange Vélodrome on matchday 31 of Ligue 1. Both sides arrive desperate for a win to pull themselves out of a spell of inconsistency that has lingered recently.
Alexis Sanchez and his Marseille teammates head into the contest on the back of two consecutive draws. With 61 points, the goal is to reclaim second place presently held by Lens. On the other hand, the Troyes squad, anchored at the Stade de l’Aube, seeks to climb out of the relegation zone, though their recent form has been stubbornly unkind, marked by 13 winless games in a row.
In the previous round, the Phocians earned a point during their visit to Lorient, keeping them in third place for now and still eleven points behind PSG, making the title an increasingly distant prospect. Patrick Kisnorbo’s side, after a setback against Clermont by 0-2, have accumulated 21 points through 4 wins, 9 draws, and 17 losses, a result that will complicate their bid for glory. The challenge is nonetheless sizable as Igor Tudor’s players have been unbeaten across the last eight fixtures, a run that includes six wins and two draws against ESTAC.
Alexis Sanchez’s statistics with Les Phocéens – All his goals with OM
In the following graphs the viewer can follow team lineups, substitutions, and the major incidents of the match:
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At GOAL we present the numbers of Alexis Sánchez against Troyes:
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Touch counts for Sánchez:
The Wonder Boy, in numbers:
Backgrounds:
- Marseille has not lost in their last eight Ligue 1 meetings with Troyes, recording 6 wins and 2 draws, with an average of 2.4 goals per game in this sequence (total of 19).
- Marseille holds an 80% home win rate against Troyes in Ligue 1 (8 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss), a consistent record even against top-table opponents.
- Marseille had not won in two consecutive Ligue 1 matches (1-1 v Montpellier, 0-0 v Lorient) for the first time since October 2022; yet they have lost only five times after 30 Ligue 1 matches this season (W18 D7), a figure matched by few teams at this stage in the 21st century.
- Troyes has failed to win any of their last 13 Ligue 1 games (D3 L10), the longest winless run in the league. It stands as the second-longest ESTAC winless streak in the top flight, surpassed only by a longer spell between May 2013 and January 2016 (22 games).
- Marseille has not claimed victory in any of their last five home Ligue 1 fixtures (three draws, two losses), a drought longer than all other current top-flight clubs except Troyes (13). OM managed just three wins from their last 11 home league games this season, with four draws and four losses.
- Troyes has lost their last six Ligue 1 away matches, the longest active run in the league. ESTAC has scored only three goals on the road in this stretch and conceded 18, making them the side with the most away losses among the top five European leagues this season (12).
- Marseille leads Ligue 1 this season in high recoveries in the ¾ zone, totaling 173. That figure already surpasses last season’s total (157), when OM finished 12th in this metric.
- Since the World Cup resumption, Troyes has a deficit of -18 between expected goals for and against (13 xG, 31 xGA), the largest gap in this period in the competition. They have conceded the most goals in the league since the World Cup (33).
- Nuno Tavares has covered three kilometers in Ligue 1 this season, making the most progressive moves with the ball among full-backs, at least 500 meters more than any Marseille teammate.
- Mama Baldé (Troyes) has faced Marseille the most minutes in Ligue 1 without scoring (484). The forward, who netted 10 Ligue 1 goals in 2022-23, is currently on a four-match scoring drought in the top flight, his longest this season.
Both clubs arrive at the Orange Vélodrome ready to contest a crucial fixture on Ligue 1 matchday 31.
Good evening to all watchers. GOAL presents a detailed look at the match between Olympique de Marseille and Troyes, a key date on Ligue 1’s calendar.