OM was largely beaten 3-0, Sunday evening, in the duel of the Olympics, and sees Rennes and Monaco return to its mirrors in the race for the Champions League.
Le Monde with AFP
A big blow on the head of the Marseillais. In addition to the scale of the score (3-0), the defeat conceded at home by Olympique de Marseille, Sunday 1
Certainly the Marseillais are always the best placed to accompany Paris-Saint-Germain in the Champions League. But they saw that Rennes (3 e ) and Monaco (4 e ) win this weekend and return to their mirrors. Three days from the end and before two trips to Lorient and … Rennes, they only have three lengths ahead of this duo in hunting.
After having been irresistible for a long time, the Phocaeans lost twice this week, since they bowed Thursday in Rotterdam on the lawn of Feyenoord (3-2) in the first leg of the Europa League Conference. And each time they have conceded three goals, which is not very reassuring. The Provencal club crosses a phase of turbulence that brings up the bad memories of the 2017-2018 season to the surface, when it had dreamed of a trophy in the Europa League and a qualification in the Champions League before losing everything in a few weeks.
Lyon still hopes Europe
OM is not there but he already knows that Lyon will have cost him dear this season. As in the first leg (2-1), Lyon defeated Marseille in the duel of the Olympics, and has thus kept, for its part, a small chance of European qualification, even if the club is still far from the account, 7 E Five lengths from Nice (5 e ).
The Triomphe Lyonnais was written in the second period, when the players of Peter Bosz, dominated before rest, took advantage of Marseille ineffectiveness and a little luck. The first goal was indeed scored by Lukeba after a free kick of Emerson deflected by the wall, which trapped Pau Lopez (1-0, 55 e ). At the time, Marseille claimed an intervention by the Var (video assistance to the arbitration), Dembélé having walked on the arm of the OM goalkeeper, but in vain.
Lyon then made the break on two beautiful goals scored opposite by Dembélé (76
sampoli criticizes arbitration
Jorge Sampaoli’s team had in fact let his chance before the break and the Arkadiusz Milik file will be open again. After two missed but difficult opportunities, the former Neapolitan should have made the difference just before rest. On this action, everything was perfect, Gerson’s call in depth, that of the Polish at the second post and the supported pass of the Brazilian. Milik then had only to cut the trajectory, but the Marseille striker, of the law, did not frame.
The end of the first period had however been rather Marseille, Sampaoli’s men installing their game of position and possession after a start to the match where they had not released immense serenity.
Previously, one of the rare hot moments had been the movement of the suspicious arm of Dembélé in its surface on a center of Gerson. All OM claimed the penalty, from players to Sampaoli via the entire stadium,
“Before the referee’s mistakes, we were better, we had control. Unfortunately we are penalized, we cannot change that,” said Jorge Sampaoli at a press conference. “We have already been penalized in Paris, and again here. I think we should standardize the criteria for no one to be penalized as we were tonight,” added the Marseille coach who will not have managed to harvest that a yellow card on the litigious action of the unpilled penalty. Dirty evening for OM, decidedly.