The Saturday night action from Ligue 1 this weekend comes from the Stade de l'Abbe Deschamps, where Auxerre will host high-flying Marseille.

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With 20 points won at home compared to just five away, no team has a bigger disparity than Auxerre in Ligue 1 this season, while Marseille are one of the few clubs to have won more points on the road.

Rather meagre home form has seen OM take just 19 points at the Velodrome, compared to 27 away from home - tied with Paris Saint-Germain for the highest in the division.

Home form was not an issue last weekend for Marseille though, as they thrashed Saint-Etienne 5-1 at the Velodrome to seal a third straight league win.

That saw Roberto De Zerbi's men hit the half-century for league goals this season, making it their most productive attacking campaign so far since 1970-71, when they also scored 50 goals in their first 22 games.

Marseille are just the fourth club in the 21st century to hit that milestone so early in a Ligue 1 season, and it has helped them build a six-point gap to Nice and Monaco below them.

De Zerbi may have already accepted they will not catch PSG, who are 10 points clear at the top, but in his first season in charge, securing automatic Champions League qualification would be a big accomplishment.

Marseille have only lost one of their last 11 games, taking 26 points in that time, and with no cup or European distractions, they can simply focus on maintaining their spot in second.

The visitors will be out to exact revenge on Auxerre though, after they won 3-1 at the Velodrome back in November, which remains their only away win of the season so far.

That leaves Christophe Pelissier with the opportunity to become just the second AJA manager to complete a league double over Marseille, after the legendary Guy Roux, who oversaw that in the 1987-88 season.

Auxerre will need to arrest a current 10-game winless run if they are to succeed in that objective though, in what has become their worst streak of results for 13 years.

Many of the matches in that run have ended in draws though, because Auxerre are still unbeaten in nine at home, but they have drawn all of the last five here, and they have only drawn in six in a row once before in their history, back in 2010.

Pelissier's men drew last weekend on the road too, dropping two points away at Brest, throwing the lead away twice in an entertaining four-goal thriller.

There is still a comfortable gap between newly-promoted Auxerre in 12th and the relegation zone, but they are now a fair distance away from the European places, after threatening to break into them earlier this season.

Auxerre possible starting lineup:

Leon; Osho, Jubal, Akpa, Mensah; Perrin, Massengo, Owusu; Traore, Bair, Sinayoko

Marseille possible starting lineup:

Rulli; Murillo, Kondogbia, Cornelius; Luis Henrique, Bennacer, Hojbjerg, Rabiot, Merlin; Greenwood, Gouiri