The Marseillais won 1 to 0 against a team of Girondins weakened by COVID-19. Bordeaux had asked unsuccessfully a postponement of the match.
Le Monde with AFP
It’s a historic victory. The Olympique de Marseille ended 44 years of championship defeat in Bordeaux by winning 1 to 0, Friday, January 7, on the Girondins field (17 es ) very weakened by COVID -19, in the opening match of the 20 e day of league 1 disputed in camera.
The OM temporarily seizes second place, ten points behind the PSG playing Sunday in Lyon, and three lengths in front of Nice, traveling to Brest, Sunday too. The Turkish attacker, Cengiz Under, marked the only goal of the meeting at 37 Minute taking advantage of a bad revival of the Bordeaux goalkeeper, Benoît Costil.
The Girondins had asked for the postponement of the match, advancing 17 positive cases at the CVIV-19 in the team, but the Professional Football League (LFP) did not take into account only 8, considering others as Healing. But it takes three times more players reached for a meeting to be repulsed. A hard blow for the club that had already been denied a postponement of the Christmas holidays: the French Football Federation had forced him to dispute the seizenies of the final of the Coupe de France in Brest (lost 0 to 3) Despite 23 missing in its ranks (including 21 positive COVID-19).
This Friday facing OM, however, the FPP had granted several derogations to the Girondins, which allowed Costil to start, and in Fransérgio and Yacine Adli to return during the game. But it was not enough.
BORDEAUX LIFT OF RHYTHM
The domination of the men of Jorge Sampoli has been without the clearest sharing of time against bordelais visibly tired. Except that the attempts of the Marseillais were too distant or not sufficiently framed to worry Costil, saved by its post on a recovery of Duje Calear-Car following a corner of Dimitri Payet Devié from the head by Boubacar Kamara (11 e ).
Then there is this referral at the six-meter poorly assured by the Bordelates goalkeeper directly on the Turkish Le Gaucher, which marks his 7 e goal of the season, the 5 e in L1.
This will be the only mistake of the international guardian who will then be vigilant at the recovery on a head of Caleta Car (52E), a Ridge Ridge and a dry shot of Matteo Guendouzi (55) and finally who will be the winner of his face-to-face with ünder (62 e ), then later in front of Dimitri Payet or Guendouzi.
In lack of rhythm with six “ex-covids” entrance aligned, the men of Vladimir Petkovic have ran a lot, suffered a lot, did not really approach only the cage of Pau Lopez before the break. , but Hwang Ui-Jo, ideally launched by Tom Lacoux, saw his shot left fly away.
In the wake of a Sissokho Issouf more than at height in the intensity, there was best in their production after the break. Mexer on Corner (47), Hwang not clinically enough at five meters (69) have had two situations to equalize and preserve this invincibility. They did not reach Marseille to put an end to the most media invincibility period of L1.