Olympique Marseille vs. PSG

Marseille produced a dominant display in the rescheduled Clasico, putting an end to a run of two straight draws with a solid if not emphatic 1-0 win over Paris Saint-German at the Stade Vélodrome on Friday night.

Gabriel Heinze was the match-winner with a fortunate header in the 25th minute, as Marseille bossed the contest against a tepid PSG side who failed to seriously threaten throughout.

Both Brandao and Mamadou Niang went close with headed efforts in the first five minutes, OM seemingly able to open up a hesitant Paris defence at will, with Mathieu Valbuena, Fabrice Abriel and Benoît Cheyrou providing precision as well as inspiration from midfield.

The hosts were looking the more likely and when the goal did come it was in peculiar fashion through PSG old boy Gabriel Heinze.

Much of the Paris defence went missing as Marseille flooded the area and it was Argentine international Gabriel Heinze who nodded Abriel's floated ball past Grégory Coupet for his first Ligue 1 goal for OM – against his former team.

PSG came close to levelling before the break when Mevlud Erding received Jallet's free-kick on the edge of the six-yard box and turned before shooting right-footed towards the bottom right corner, but Mandanda stretched to save.

Niang went even closer at the other end in the 40th minute as Coupet deflected his effort from the edge of the area on to the bar.

The home side posed the greater threat after the break too.

Despite finishing much stronger after the entrance of Ludovic Giuly on 70 minutes, Paris failed to seriously threaten Deschamps' men, and the scoreline remained at 1-0 at the final whistle.

After scoring eleven goals in their past two games, Marseille will be content with just the one which secured the three points against their bitter rivals from the north.