PSG v Marseille Betting Preview – Ligue 1 25th February 8.00pm
Ligue 1 leaders PSG head into a tough duel on the weekend as they play host to third-placed Marseille. While the Parisians have a massive twelve-point lead at the top of the table over second-placed Monaco heading into the weekend, for Marseille this is an important game to try and potentially not lose touch in the battle for the runners-up spot in the French top flight this season, which means automatic Champions League football next term.
PSG v Marseille Betting Tips
Man City in the Premier League. Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. Barcelona in La Liga. The title races in most of Europe’s big leagues look pretty done and dusted already and PSG are doing their part on the French front, leading the way in dominant fashion. They are on a four-match winning streak at the moment since losing at Lyon back on January 21st. Their home form is just simply imperious having won all thirteen of their games on home soil in the league. So let’s look at the numbers. It is 51 goals that they have scored in those games at an average of 3.92 per game and they have conceded just the nine times. PSG to win to nil at William Hill is a pretty decent place to start as they take on Marseille on the weekend, and that option is at 6/4 odds and they have plenty of recent history in beating Marseille without conceding too.
Edinson Cavani has fired off 23 goals this season and 15 of those have been at home, while Neymar has scored 12 of his 19 league goals on home soil too. They are obvious targets in the William Hill First Goalscorer market therefore where they are 9/4 joint-favourites* (Betting Odds taken at 11:00 p.m. on February 23rd, 2018). PSG have scored at least two goals in all of their home games in the league this season and they haven’t won a single game by a one-goal margin either, they have all been by bigger gaps. Their most frequent result at home this season has been a 2-0 victory while they have been 1-0 ahead four times on home soil so far at half time in home fixtures. It has really just been a procession for them.
Marseille then, despite having had a fantastic season themselves have a tough game ahead of them. They are running 16 points better off than they were at this stage last season and a lot of that has been down to their tremendous home form. But they haven’t done bad out their travels in Ligue 1 either with a W7 D4 L2 record on the board so far and they are without defeat in their last three away games and overall home and away are unbeaten in eight. So it has been good form from them and they have scored in each of their last eight games as well. Overall they have averaged 1.85 goals per game and over 2.5 goals at William Hill for this Sunday evening clash is at 2/7* (Betting Odds taken at 11:00 p.m. on February 23rd, 2018). Marseille have banked a clean sheet in 46% of their away games this season which is excellent and they have hit the back of the net in 92% of their away matches. But can they get change out of PSG for the second time this season?
PSG v Marseille Head to Head
Marseille held out to a 0-0 draw in this corresponding fixture last season and they also picked up a point in this season’s elite duel with the Parisian heavyweights. However, when it comes to actual wins over PSG, and Marseille have been found wanting for a while. Their last win over PSG was back in 2001 which means that they are on a fifteen match winless streak of form against PSG (D2 L13) in all competitions. They have failed to score in six of their last seven trips to PSG.
PSG v Marseille Betting Odds*
PSG 1/4, Draw 5/1, Marseille 10/1* (Betting Odds taken at 11:00 p.m. on February 23rd, 2018)
PSG v Marseille Predictions
As good of a season that Marseille are having, and over the last eight games only PSG have collected more league points than they have done, you would still have to back PSG to get out of this challenge with a win. However, Marseille have scored at least two goals in each of their last three home games so back a PSG win and Both Teams To Score.
