Ligue 1: Marseille knocks out Angers

OM reassured herself before his meeting on Tuesday against Sporting Portugal in the Champions League.

Le Monde with AFP

Olympique de Marseille (OM) temporarily took the lead in the French football championship, Friday, September 30, by winning (3-0), without forcing too much, during the opening match of the ninth Ligue 1 day, facing Angevins who played at home, at the Raymond-Kopa stadium.

Malmed during the first half hour, the Phocaeans finally took advantage of the lack of realism of their opponents and the faults of the SCO – now worse defense of the championship (21 goals conceded in nine matches) – to win thanks to Jonathan CLAUSS (35 E ), Luis Suarez (50 e ) and Gerson (59 e ). An ideal recovery, after the international break, for the men of Igor Tudor to whom there are ten games to compete, all competitions, before the November-December cut for the 2012 Cup in Qatar.

In Ligue 1, they remain undefeated and, after their recent disappointment against Rennes (1-1) on the eighth day, they take a short step on Paris Saint-Germain, which receives Nice on Saturday evening Parc des Princes.

But the painting is darker in the Champions League, where OM started with two defeats against the English of Tottenham (0-2) and the Germans of Eintracht Frankfurt (0-1) and will not have Not the right to make mistakes on Tuesday against Sporting Portugal.

For Angers, who had emerged from a bad pass by chaining two victories against Montpellier (2-1) and Nice (1-0) before the truce, it is a new disappointment. But the workforce of Gérald Batic (14 ^{e , 8 points), deeply renewed this summer, keeps a little ahead of the red zone and showed encouraging signs.}

First Marseille goal for Clauss

In a match carried out on a small rhythm, in a fine rain and fresh gusts, the players of the SCO began by imposing their pressing on the Marseillais. But Nabil Bentaleb saw the post repel a beautiful strike (18 e ) and Adrien Hunou, found alone in the surface, did not frame her (34 e ) .

Behind, the Marseillais Clauss, well offbeat on the left by Suarez, tumbled into the Angevin repair surface to open the brand with the help of the incoming post (1-0, 35 e ), raising the Raymond-Kopa stadium, where the Olympian “with arms” resounded much stronger than the “go the SCO”. This is the first goal in the OM jersey for the French international, who was helping out in the left corridor due to the suspension of Nuno Tavares.

Revigorated, the Marseillais accelerated the rhythm and Suarez had the opportunity to knock out the Angevins but his head was not framed (39 e ). It was Clauss who took care of it: intercepting a ball badly negotiated by the Angevin defense, the winger quickly projected himself to find Suarez alone in the area (2-0, 50 ^e ). The old Lensois then combined near the cages of the SCO with Samuel Gigot, which served Gerson (3-0, 59 e ).

Faced with increasingly feverish Angevins, OM then rolled out without forcing and Igor Tudor (from the stands because suspended and replaced on the bench by his assistant Hari Vukas) took the opportunity to get Clauss out – under The stadium acclamations -, Gerson and Dimitri Payet, in anticipation of the already crucial Tuesday match for the rest of his European campaign.