Racing looking to make it seven unbeaten against Marseille....
Sep 26, 2025
Ligue 1:
RC Strasbourg- Olympique Marseille
Quick turnaround for Marseille who will have been delighted with their 1-0 defeat of PSG, their biggest rival, in an emotionally charged Velodrome on Monday. They are now 800km away in Strasbourg on Friday night, against a host who are joint top of the table, scoring freely ( 9 goals in their last four starts) and unbeaten in six h2h meetings with the visitors. RCS have featured very heavily in my notes in the last two years and in preseason I updated with ......
Strasbourg are "our" Ligue 1 team, or have been for the last two seasons, tracking them through the BlueCo (Chelsea) takeover and the appointment of Liam Rosenior as head coach 12 months ago. They finished 7th with 34 points (second only to PSG) coming through the second half of the campaign.
XP gave them 14 points fewer and xGA suggests they should have conceded 18 goals more. Last season they had the youngest squad in Ligue 1 at an average of 22.2 years of age.
This campaign will be interesting and could go either way, first up, they have those numbers to outrun yet again and they sold Habib Diarra to Sunderland for a big fee and another player to Chelsea, but he was immediately loaned back.
They have signed, wait for it, 10 players for a combined 100m€ and loaned three total from parent club Chelsea, the oldest of the 13 is 23yo and seven are teenagers. They have a 33 man squad as I type with an average age of 21.7 , the next youngest group in Ligue 1 comes in at 24.1! It is an incredibly exciting project and one I love, but they also have European football , albeit only the Conference League to deal with, but that makes for a lot of Thursday/Sunday football weeks. In some ways this season feels even more of a learning curve. I am sure they will feature in my notes a lot, but I feel they will do well to match last season's 7th place, but having said that, a couple of teams who finished above them last season might be in a spot of bother. Let's hold off and wait and see how the first few weeks pan out.
Given our fondness for RCS, how they have started, their fantastic h2h record in this series, the quick turnaround for OM and the fact that the visitors should have conceded an additional three goals(xGA), I feel we have to go with ....
2 units RC Strasbourg +0.25 ball @ 2.11 asian line.
Good luck!
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