Marseille v Sporting Lisbon Betting Tips [4 October 2022]

Marseille hosts Sporting Lisbon in Group D of the UEFA Champions League, as action gets into Match Day 3. The hosts have lost both their opening games in this group and are thus bottom of the group without a point, while Sporting top the group on six points. Coming into this game, Marseille registered their second win in five matches, beating Angers 3-0 away from home. That marked their first clan sheet in five matches, and they’ve failed to score in two of their last five matches. On Match Day 2, they lost at home to Champions League first – timers, Eintracht Frankfurt, having earlier lost 2-0 to Tottenham Hotspur. While they are doing well domestically, it hasn’t been so great here. In 17 Champions League matches, Marseille have managed just one win.

Sporting Lisbon come into this game on a stable run. They beat Gil Vicente 3-1 in their domestic league, recovering from a 2-1 away loss to Boavista earlier. This win was their fourth in five matches, a run only blemished by the loss to Boavista. They have three clean sheets in these last five matches and in their four wins in that period, they’ve scored two or more goals in each. Four of their last five matches have produced over 2.5 goals and they will be traveling to France looking to improve on their away run, having managed just two wins in their last five away matches. They’ve only failed to score in one of their last five away matches but in the Champions League they have two back to back clean sheets in away games.

Marseille are struggling in this group; they’ve failed to bring their domestic form to the Champions League and going into this game, their Champions League run isn’t so good. Sporting are doing well in this group, and even domestically, they’ve registered remarkable improvement. Back them to win here.