The last Olympico at the Groupama Stadium had held all its promises: tension, a crazy scenario, a red card, five goals, two of which in additional time, and a victory of OM in the end … This time, it is OL made the club of the Marseille city cracked at the very end of the game.
Dominators, the Lyonnais believed many times being able to open the brand in a high intensity meeting. From the first quarter of an hour, Gerónimo Rulli is already opposed to Abner Vinicius, spreading a strike at close range of a beautiful reflex parade.
The two men, the main protagonists of the first act, soon found themselves, since five minutes later, the Brazilian collapsed after a duel with the Argentinian goalkeeper in the area. François Letexier does not hesitate and designates the penalty point, before changing his mind with the help of the video and sending a yellow card for simulation at the Lyon side.
But the pair still does not want to let go, and Abner Vinicius think this time finding the flaw by pushing the leather in the nets on a center of Malick Fofana. But the Belgian was in the offside position at the start of the action.
A few seconds later, the meeting referee expelled the Marseille defender CJ Egan-Riley, guilty of having broke Fofana in the position of last defender.
Marseille cracks at the end of the match
Lyon takes advantage of it and grows on the goal of Rulli, who again sees his nets trembling on a conclusion from Ainsley Maitland-Niles in the additional time of the first period. Again, the goal is refused for a tessmann fault on the Olympian goalkeeper.
Upon returning from the locker room, the intensity decreases of a notch and the men of Roberto de Zerbi take the opportunity to counter. But twice, Rémy Descamps repels the attempts by Pierre-Emile Höjbjerg, then of the Hamed Junior Traoré recruit.
Victorious during the first two days, Olympique Lyonnais thought of feeding regrets, while the final whistle was looming. But it was said that OL would improve the beautiful tribute paid to its historic leader Bernard Lacombe, who died in June, and to his Georgian striker Georges Mikautadze, on the departure for Villarreal.
Three minutes from the end of regulation time, Tyler Morton sends a good ball to the penalty point that Tessmann deviates from his head to Nicolás Tagliafico.
The world champion sees his attempt hitting the crossbar before returning to Balerdi. Put under pressure by Sulc, the Argentinian defender pushes the ball into his own nets and offers victory in Lyon (87th, 1-0).
Paulo Fonseca’s men thus return to the leader, Paris Saint-Germain, and settle down comfortably on the podium before the international break.
After the defeat in Rennes and the Rabiot affair, leaving for AC Milan, Marseille remains stuck in the middle of the classification.
