2007–08 Olympique de Marseille season
Appearance
2007-08 season | ||||
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Chairman | Robert Louis-Dreyfus | |||
Manager | Albert Emon Eric Gerets | |||
Ligue 1 | 3rd | |||
Coupe de France | Round of 16 | |||
League Cup | Quarter finals | |||
Champions League | Group stage | |||
UEFA Cup | Round of 16 | |||
Top goalscorer | Mamadou Niang (18) | |||
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Olympique de Marseille extended their titleless run to 15 years - but had a decent season, where they qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the second year running, and won away from home in the 2007-08 tournament at Anfield against 2007 finalists Liverpool, but a 4-0 defeat at Stade Vélodrome in the last round knocked l'OM out of the tournament. Having sold Franck Ribéry to Bayern Munich for around 30 million euros, the stage was set for Marseille to push the boundaries financially in the coming seasons, with investments in the playing squad long overdue for a club that had been known as a club selling players expensively rather than buying.
Squad
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Kanga Akalé
Renato Civelli
Taye Taiwo
Julien Rodriguez
Jacques Faty
Leyti N'Diaye
Ronald Zubar
Gaël Givet
Laurent Bonnart
Midfielders
Karim Ziani
Benoît Cheyrou
Wilson Oruma
Boudewijn Zenden
Charles Kaboré
Modeste M'Bami
Lorik Cana
Miloš Krstić
Samir Nasri
Juan Krupoviesa
Mathieu Valbuena
Attackers
Competitions
Ligue 1
League table
Template:2007–08 Ligue 1 table
Results summary
Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
38 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 58 | 45 | +13 | 62 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 34 | 21 | +13 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 24 | 24 | 0 |
Source: LFP.fr
Results by match
Matches
4 August 2007 1 | Strasbourg | 0–0 | Marseille |
15 August 2007 3 | Valenciennes | 2–1 | Marseille | |
Savidan ![]() |
Ziani ![]() |
29 August 2007 6 | Marseille | 0–2 | Nice | |
Hognon ![]() Hellebuyck ![]() |
6 October 2007 10 | Saint-Étienne | 1–0 | Marseille | |
Dernis ![]() |
19 January 2008 21 | Marseille | 3–1 | Valenciennes | |
Cissé ![]() Rodriguez ![]() |
Audel ![]() |
9 March 2008 28 | Marseille | 2–0 | Saint-Étienne | |
Valbuena ![]() Taiwo ![]() |
16 March 2008 29 | Lens | 3–3 | Marseille | |
Maoulida ![]() Mangane ![]() Rémy ![]() |
Nasri ![]() Cheyrou ![]() Cissé ![]() |
17 May 2008 38 | Marseille | 4–3 | Strasbourg | |
Niang ![]() Cissé ![]() Nasri ![]() |
Fanchone ![]() Gameiro ![]() Zenke ![]() |
UEFA Champions League
Group stage
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 11 |
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 5 | +13 | 10 |
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6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 7 |
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6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 15 | −11 | 6 |
UEFA Cup
Knockout phase
Round of 32
13 February 2008 1 | Marseille | 3–0 | Spartak Moskva | |
Cheyrou ![]() Taiwo ![]() Niang ![]() |
21 February 2008 2 | Spartak Moskva | 2–0 (2–3 agg.) | Marseille | |
Pavlenko ![]() Pavlyuchenko ![]() |
Round of 16
12 March 2008 2 | Zenit | 2–0 (3a–3 agg.) | Marseille | |
Pogrebnyak ![]() |