Champions League: OM begins its European campaign with a defeat against Tottenham

Reduced to ten at the start of the second period, the men of Igor Tudor will end up falling in the last quarter of an hour: 2-0.

Le Monde

Missed entry for Olympique de Marseille in the Champions League. The Marseille club lost Wednesday September 7 against the London club Tottenham (2-0), for its first group match in the Queen of European football club competition.

Reduced to ten as soon as the second period resumed following a fault as Chancel Mbemba on his Heung-Min, the Marseillais ended up cracking on a head of the Brazilian Richarlison, forgotten by the defense (76 E

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The 25 -year -old striker, who played his first Champions League match, even offered himself a double a few minutes later – even his head -, easily winning his duel with Samuel Gigot (81 E

).

Just before the opening of the score, the men of Igor Tudor, with Dimitri Payet on the bench, had just missed an opportunity to lead by Amin Harit. “Red killed us,” said Valentin Rongier, OM captain, at the microphone of Canal+ after the match. “We are frustrated, we saw that at 11 against 11 we played an equal game, even we dominate this team.”

quaranth sets in 74 outings

For their return to the Champions League, the Phocaeans begin with a defeat. As was the case two years earlier, where they had been surprised by the Greeks of Olympiakos in additional time. That season, OM had only taken 3 points out of the 18 possible.

Marseille records this Wednesday, its 40 e sets out in 74 outings in the European elite competition. You have to go back to 2011 to find a Marseille victory during a first meeting in the group stage (0-1, still against Olympiakos).

At the end of this day, Sporting Portugal takes the lead in group D, after surprising the Europa league holder, Eintracht Frankfurt (3-0), swept away in its stadium for its first match in Champions League since… the 1960 final lost against Real Madrid (7-3). The Marseillais receive the Germans next week in the duel of the vanquished to relaunch.

/Media reports.