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Five meetings, no Angers win: Marseille lead on goal difference as 12th meets 13th
Angers host Marseille in Ligue 1 on Sunday, with Marseille winners in three of the last five meetings and one point separating the sides.
By FootieRadar Desk · Published · 3 min read
Angers and Marseille meet at the Stade Raymond Kopa, 12th and 13th in Ligue 1 and separated by a single point. Both have lost more league games than they have won, and neither has pulled clear.
The story is the head-to-head. Angers have not beaten Marseille in any of their last five meetings, and Marseille hold the better goal difference. Kick-off is Sunday 18 October, 4pm Kenya time, with Jeremie Pignard refereeing.
Angers' leaky defence
Angers have won two, drawn one and lost three of their six league games, scoring seven and conceding 10. Two clean sheets matches Marseille's total, but conceding 10 in six games is the real problem. The 1-5 defeat at Brest on 10 Oct was the heaviest of their last five.
Their best result is the 2-0 win over Troyes on 19 Sept. They have scored in four of their last five matches, yet they have also conceded eight in the same run, so goals are coming at both ends.
| Angers | Marseille | |
|---|---|---|
| 12th | League position | 13th |
| 7 | Points | 6 |
| 2-1-3 | Won-drawn-lost | 2-0-4 |
| 7 / 10 | Goals for / against | 9 / 8 |
| 2 | Clean sheets | 2 |
| L W D L W | Last five, latest first | L W L L L |
Marseille's four defeats in five
Marseille have lost four of their last five in all competitions. The only win was a 2-0 victory at Troyes on 11 Oct, and two of the defeats came in Europe: a 1-4 loss at Beşiktaş and a 0-1 home defeat to Olympiakos on 15 Oct. Across the five, they scored four and conceded eight.
In Ligue 1 they have won two and lost four of six, with nine scored and eight conceded. Our data lists A. Gouiri as their top scorer, with four league goals and one assist.
Two sides missing key men
Angers are without J. Lefort, who is out after a red card, and U. Simbakoli, who has a muscle injury. O. Camara is questionable with an injury.
Marseille are missing D. Cornelius (hip injury) and P. Hojbjerg (muscle injury), with K. Abdallah questionable. Our data has no line-ups, so we cannot say how either side will set up.
No Angers win in five meetings
Marseille have won three of the last five meetings, and the 5-2 win at Angers in January 2026 was the biggest margin in that run. Angers hosted that defeat and the 0-2 loss in February 2025.
The other two meetings were draws, 2-2 in October 2025 and 1-1 in October 2024. Angers have not won any of the five.
Where the numbers point
Marseille have conceded two fewer league goals than Angers, eight to 10, and hold the better goal difference, +1 to -3. Angers sit a place higher on seven points to six, but the table is tight after six games each.
At the time of writing, the betting market's view, calculated from Pinnacle's odds with the margin removed, gives Marseille 46%, Angers 29% and a draw 25%. That is the market's view, not ours, and prices move. With six league games each, the sample is small.
Odds in Kenya
Kick-off is Sunday 18 October, 4pm Kenya time at Stade Raymond Kopa, Angers. These are the best prices at bookmakers licensed in Kenya right now.
Market view
The chance of each result implied by Pinnacle’s odds, with the bookmaker’s margin (3.6%) removed. Updated hourly. Calculated from betting-market data, not our opinion, and never a guarantee. How we calculate this →
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Data: API-Football (fixtures, standings, form, injuries, head-to-head, odds). Written by the FootieRadar desk with AI assistance and checked against the match data. How our predictions work.
