With their backs to the wall, the two French teams entered on Tuesday in the Champions League will have responded: Olympique de Marseille won (3-2) in Brussels against Union Saint-Gilloise and AS Monaco overcame its current difficulties, but also a difficult start to the match and a missed penalty, to beat (1-0) Galatasaray of Istanbul, with three victories in the Champions League this season. Two days from the end, the two teams are respectively 16th and 18th out of 36 with 9 points before Wednesday’s matches, the first 24 continuing the adventure. It should go to 11 points, maybe even 10: qualification appears to be well underway. Freed from these low contingencies, Paris-SG (4th, 4 victories in five matches) is in action this Wednesday in the Basque Country against Athletic Bilbao.
A matter of class, centimeters (two Belgian goals canceled by the VAR for imperceptible offsides) and character: twisted most of the match by an enthusiastic Union Saint-Gilloise team and totally in the spirit demanded by very high level European games, Olympique de Marseille snatched (3-2) in Belgium an iridescent victory, which can be taken and explained in many ways. But there is one that we will still favor: the exceptional talent of his English striker Mason Greenwood, whose arrival at the club in August 2024 was controversial –
