Marseille vs Metz Preview: Team News & Prediction
by Alex Lawes ·
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Olympique de Marseille are continuing their chaotic campaign as they welcome relegation-bound and rock-bottom Metz to the Stade Velodrome on Friday night.
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Marseille preview: Chaotic Marseille
The fairly surprising appointment of Habib Beye has hardly brought about a dramatic improvement in form for Marseille as their position in the top four, let alone pushing for the top three, is now in jeopardy.
That is because of their most recent outing whereby they suffered a 2-1 loss to Monaco at Stade Louis II last weekend with goals from Aleksandr Golovin and Folarin Balogun producing a victory for the Monegasque.
Metz preview: Ligue 2-bound
They now face a Metz side that begin this weekend's round of fixtures sitting eight points adrift of the relegation playoff places and 12 points adrift of outright safety with six games to go this season.
The visitors most recently shared a goalless draw last weekend with a Nantes side that sit alongside them in the bottom two and the automatic relegation places in France's top-flight.
Marseille team news: Egan-Riley now out
Former Burnley centre-back CJ Egan-Riley went off injured in the game last weekend and he is now sidelined alongside former West Ham United defender Nayef Aguerd.
Predicted XI (3-4-1-2): Rulli; Pavard, Balerdi, Medina; Weah, Hojbjerg, Timber, Igor Paixao; Traore; Gouiri, Aubameyang
Unavailable: Aguerd (Injured), Egan-Riley (Injured), Kondogbia (Injured)
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Metz team news: A few injuries
Metz are dealing with a few injury absentees as they travel to Stade Velodrome with Believe Munongo now sidelined alongside both Boubacar Traore and Joseph Mangondo.
Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Sy; Koauo, Sane, Mboula, Colin; Gbamin, Deminguet; Sarr, Hein, Tsitaishvili; Diallo
Unavailable: Munongo (Injured), Traore (Injured), Mangondo (Injured)
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Marseille vs Metz prediction
Metz have struggled throughout the campaign with just three victories in 28 matches under the management of Benoit Tavenot. Marseille are hardly a team you can trust to beat anyone, especially teams down at the bottom end of the table, but it has to be the case that the southerners surely get themselves over the line for this one down on the south coast of France.
Marseille vs Metz tip: Marseille to win
