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This Saturday evening on behalf of the 30th day, OM easily disposed of the Montpellier red lantern (5-1).
And come back to Marseille in second place: a time embarrassed by Montpellier, OM accelerated after the break to crush the red lantern 5-1, leave behind a new week of tensions and reinstall on the second step of the podium in place of Monaco.
For OM, the issue of the Saturday match was quite simple. It was necessary to win, what everyone does against Montpellier – now beaten 11 times in a row – or act yet another return to times of crisis.
The mission is accomplished, with a few slag all the same because the first period of the men of Roberto de Zerbi was laborious and they found a way to collect a goal at the end of the match, signed Lucas Mincarelli, the second only scored since the end of January by the Héraultais.
But the essential is therefore done, when the week had been tense in Marseille, between a call to the sacred union of Pablo Longoria on Tuesday and an interview warned of its director of football Medhi Benatia this Saturday. “If there was no Champions League, it would be a disaster,” warned Benatia. And for the moment, OM remains positioned for the big Europe, second with a point ahead of Monaco and four in Lyon which will play the derby on Sunday against Saint-Etienne.
The Loseidon eye
Because the OM evening had started a little before kick-off with good news from Monaco, the 0-0 draw between the Principality team and Strasbourg, who clearly did his belongings. Montpellier had one too, the defeat of Le Havre at the Parc des Princes offering it a short stay before a relegation in Ligue 2 which seems inevitable.
Once the match has been launched, OM seemed to quickly get in the direction of walking with a first occasion signed Mason Greenwood, which put its flight on the bar of Benjamin Lecomte (5th). Marseille then took the advantage on a penalty obtained by Ulisses Garcia and succeeded by Greenwood (1-0, 8th), while for Montpellier, under the gaze of the giant posedidon deployed in the stands by the South Winners, it was already the storm.
But the Montpellier youth, while its disappointing seniors were on the bench or in the gallery, did not drowsen and did not deserve until the break. The players of Zoumana Camara had not been very dangerous, of course, but those of Roberto de Zerbi barely more, with the only notable situations in the middle of an ocean of lateral passes, a strike of Greenwood in closed angle (29th) and a head without power by Adrien Rabiot (33rd).
Rabiot still marks
But in the second period, everything was much more complicated for the MHSC, the OM having clearly supported the accelerator with a head of Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (53rd) and a good recovery from Quentin Merlin (59th) at first.
Finally, the break was done in the 60th minute on a confused action. The goal was attributed to Amine Gouiri, but he owes the head as much on the bar of Merlin and the panic of young Montpellier defenders Yaël Mouanga and Wilfried Ndollo Bille
Less than ten minutes later, Greenwood signed a double after a new sharp climb by Amir Murillo (3-0, 67th) and the velodrome was reassured. Marseille supporters were still able to celebrate the nice goal of Jonathan Rowe (4-0, 74th) and that of Rabiot (5-1, 90th).
Next week, OM will still be at home to receive Brest and consolidate its second place. Four days before the end of the championship, she allows him to keep her hand on her always target: the Champions League.
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