Nantes 1-2 Marseille 
Buts : Kadewere (39e) for the FCN // Maupay (24e) et Greenwood (64e) for OM
A shot from Pierre-Emile Højbjerg’s scarf at 29ea “Neymar-style” control from Jonathan Rowe at 32e : at the half-hour mark, this Sunday in Beaujoire almost won over to their cause, OM already seemed to be decompressing by managing a success which had taken shape quite quickly. Basically, we cannot blame the Marseillais, who indeed left the Loire-Atlantique with the three points (1-2) at the end of the evening; However, the conquest of the city of the Dukes of Brittany proved more grueling than expected. And even winning, Roberto De Zerbi’s squad did not completely reset the score, a week after the trauma at home against PSG (0-3).
74% possession
Unable to win for six matches before this evening, FC Nantes did not even try to take the lead against the Olympians, who had all the luxury of putting their foot on the leather and approaching the target. In pain against Mason Greenwood, Nicolas Cozza intervened in the area in front of Neal Maupay (18e), but the latter was not followed on a cross from Jonathan Rowe (0-1, 24e) and was able to celebrate his second goal of the season in front of the contingent of Marseille supporters gathered at the end of the Erdre stand… right next to a sadly empty visitors’ park, which had to be stopped. Nicolas Pallois also acted as police, ahead of Adrien Rabiot (28e), and Mostafa Mohamed narrowly avoided a CSC gag (29e). Finally, it was only in the middle of the second act that OM was able to score the second (1-2, 61e) on a gesture that Greenwood had already repeated at the start of the performance (7e). And there was never a third (despite 74% possession, anyway), since Adrien Rabiot, right foot, only found the amount (83e).
Between the two Marseille achievements, there was therefore a short half hour of real opposition, during which the host club existed, overturning the wobbly chair in which OM had slumped. First defeated by Rulli (35e), Tino Kadewere equalized on a rebound, resurrecting the Nantes game with a clear movement led by Sorba Thomas and Marcus Coco (1-1, 39e). The Zimbabwean made Beaujoire tremble, before disgusting it, much later, by harvesting a golden face-to-face (67e). Shortly before, Mostafa Mohamed had managed to steal a superb counter-attack ball (52e): two situations that the Nantes attackers had created themselves, and two symbols of the Nantes side, voluntary and dangerous but often disgusting, when they were not stopped by Geronimo Rulli (64e) or frustrated by the assistant referee’s flag, which often rose for Moses Simon at the end of the match. For OM, the evening was not easy, especially for Derek Cornelius, taken out on a stretcher less than 20 minutes after his entry (87e).
FCN (4-2-3-1) : Lafont – Coco (Amian, 67e), Castelletto, Pallois, Cozza – Chirivella, D. Augusto (Guirassy, 80e) – S. Thomas (Denial, 67).e), Kadewere (Gbamin, 80e), M. Simon – M. Mohamed (Abline, 68e). Coach : Antoine Kombouaré.
ABOUT (4-2-3-1) : Rulli – Lirola (Cornelius 69ethen Rongier 87e), Balerdi, Kondogbia, Merlin (Murillo, 59e) – Rabiot, Højbjerg – Greenwood, I. Koné (L. Henrique, 59e), Rowe – Maupay. Coach : Roberto DeZerbi.
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