Olympique de Marseille – Metz: a massive gap at the Vélodrome 
Friday night’s fixture looks badly one-sided. The home side have their eyes on the national podium. The bottom club are fighting for their lives at the foot of the table. Twelve points separate last place from the first team outside the drop zone. The need for points makes this a must-have result. The heat is already rising in Marseille.
OM need a response, now 
Habib Beye wants an instant reaction from his squad. Marseille are coming off back-to-back defeats against direct rivals. Lille and Monaco have both recently beaten them in the league. The club sit fourth for the moment. The push for Champions League football is piling the pressure on Marseille. Their home numbers need to improve fast. The attack should have too much for the division’s strugglers.
Metz’s defensive collapse 
The visitors are propping up the French top flight with nineteen defeats. They’re on a dreadful run of sixteen games without a win. The recent draw with Nantes showed a tiny bit of fight. But the back line has been a disaster, with sixty goals shipped. History offers Metz very little hope here. The reverse fixture was a Marseille rout back in October.
Likely lineups
Marseille : Rulli ; Pavard, Balerdi, Medina ; Weah, Hojbjerg, H J Traore, Timber, Paixao ; Gouiri, Aubameyang
Metz : Sy ; Kouao, Sane, Mboula, Colin ; Hein, Gbamin, Deminguet ; Sarr, Diallo, Tsitaishvili
Football Prediction Olympique de Marseille vs Metz
Marseille to win by at least 2 goals
The need to keep pace with the front-runners will drive the home side on. Marseille’s attack should rip through the leakiest defence in the country.
The gap in quality ought to bring goals. Lots of them. Metz look brittle everywhere, and that should leave the home side carving through the middle at will.
Home advantage at the Vélodrome should seal a big Marseille win.
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