The win and the way for OM
After a month of waiting and four matches without winning, the Marseillais ended up returning to success, which had eluded them since the stormy “clasico” won in Paris in mid-September (1-0).
In a Vélodrome behind closed doors due to a health curfew, OM won their first victory of the season at home. In addition, the team of André Villas-Boas took care of the way against Bordelais too quickly extinct.
Florian Thauvin, the man in form in Marseille (4 assists, 3 goals this season), opened the scoring with a clear shot in the skylight (5th), before missing a penalty caused by Jordan Amavi and stopped by the goalkeeper Benoît Costil (14th). But the world champion winger made up for it by depositing a free kick on the head of Amavi, scorer with a pretty lobed head (54th).
The Marseille side defender has also signed a full evening since he is the origin of the third goal, a powerful center-shot that Pablo deflected in his own cage (64th).
In short, it is a very clean copy for Marseille (12 pts) which goes back to provisional fifth place, three lengths from Paris SG (1st, 15 pts) and Rennes (2nd, 15 pts). Bodes well for “AVB” and his team before challenging Olympiakos on Wednesday in Greece for OM’s comeback in C1, its first participation since 2013.
“It is sure that it is a very beautiful evening, especially since there is the victory at the end”, savored Jordan Amavi at the microphone of Canal +. “Now we’ll go home, rest and prepare for Wednesday’s game.”
The only downside on the Marseille side: the injured exit of Croatian defender Duje Caleta-Car (87th), apparently hit in an ankle …
On the Bordeaux side, we saw too little and Jean-Louis Gasset’s bet to launch Hatem Ben Arfa holder from his very first match with the Girondins did not pay off.
The former Marseillais, recruited ten days ago to boost the Bordeaux game, believed to equalize by starting in the back of the defense but he was reported offside (17th). In lack of rhythm, he came out on time without being decisive, replaced by Josh Maja who saved the Bordeaux honor (83rd).
“We had some good streaks anyway, like Hatem’s unfortunately refused goal,” said Bordeaux goalkeeper Benoît Costil. “But we have to progress in consistency, we have work.”
A nightmare in Reims
It’s hard to imagine a worse scenario for Reims, who lost nine to eleven at home against Lorient and still hasn’t won a single game after 7 days in Ligue 1, stagnating in 19th place in the standings (2 pts) .
At home, David Guion’s team believed they had done the hard part with a nice strike from Moreto Cassama (15th).
But the Reims defense, so solid last season, still failed, like goalkeeper Predrag Rajkovic: the Serbian goalkeeper, feverish on the equalizer of Pierre-Yves Hamel (61st), then caused a penalty by tackling Terem Moffi, allowing Yoan Wissa to give the advantage to Lorient (65th).
And the evening turned into a nightmare for the Rémois: red card for Moreto Cassama on a badly controlled tackle on Hamel (70th), red card for Anastasios Donis for a tackle full of exasperation (90th), and meanwhile the goal of K. -O. registered by Moffi (80th) …
