Marseille vs Reims prediction: FRANCE: Ligue 1 betting tips on match 2022-08-06 18:45.
Jorge Sampaoli brought Champions League football back to Marseille last season after the club finished in the top-two of a fully-completed Ligue 1 campaign for the first time since 2012/13. Despite the good result, coach Sampaoli opted to resign because he felt he did "not have enough money" to recruit players, and has since been replaced by Igor Tudor.
A quiet summer in terms of transfers, combined with tensions between some players and the new coach has already placed Tudor under scrutiny even before the campaign has started. Not only that, but a bad omen also lies with the fact that the last time the Olympians met Stade de Reims at the Stade Vélodrome in Ligue 1’s opening round (2019/20), they lost 2-0.
This emerging crisis at Marseille bodes well for Reims who will try to better their 12th place finish of last season. Frustration in the final third may be forthcoming however, as last season’s topscorer Hugo Ekitike (ten L1 goals) has departed for PSG, and the recent injury of their biggest offensive signing of the summer Junya Ito doesn't help.
Coach Oscar Garcia’s side will rely on their successful experience of starting their Ligue 1 campaigns on the road as this is something that has happened in all four seasons since their last promotion (W2, D2). A meeting with Marseille may be a golden opportunity to extend that unbeaten run, considering they’ve lost just one the last nine top-flight H2Hs held here (W2, D6).
Players to watch: Marseille could rely on Gerson for a good start as he has been the game’s first scorer in five of the last seven Ligue 1 matches he netted in, including the previous H2H. Reims will hope Marshall Munetsi can find the net as they’ve won four of his last five goalscoring Ligue 1 games (D1).
Hot stat: Marseille have lost only one Ligue 1 game referred by JĂ©rĂ´me Brisard (W8, D4), but that was the aforementioned 2-0 home loss against Reims.