Ligue 1: OM concedes draw in Strasbourg and doubt before Tottenham

Three days before the crucial match against Tottenham in the Champions League, OM has spoiled an advantage of two goals and was caught up in the last quarter of an hour (2-2), in Strasbourg during The 13th day of L1.

Le Monde with AFP

For the fourth consecutive time, Olympique de Marseille did not succeed, Saturday October 29, to win its match in Ligue 1, this time against Strasbourg who snatched the draw at home (2-2), in The last minutes of play. A result of bad omen before playing their qualification in the Champions League against Tottenham Tuesday.

Three days after the reverse in C1 on the lawn of the Eintracht Frankfurt (2-1), the Phocaeans, with a reworked team, thought they had done the hardest by leading 2-0, but they ended up cracking Under the pressure of Racing and a stadium of the incandescent meinau.

It was Banni Bamba Dieng, for his first tenure of the season, who had opened the scoring quickly (8 ^{e ), then Issa Kaboré, rarely holder, had dug the gap ( 35 e ). The reduction in the gap by Lebo Mothiba (75 e ) woke up the RCSA, which torn the draw in additional time thanks to Kevin Gameiro (90 e + 2).}

The Olympians had lost their last three championship matches and therefore only garnered in the last twelve possible. They remain fifth with 23 points, seven lengths from Lens, the dolphin of the untouchable Parisian leader. The RCSA, which has won only one match this season, remains 16 e with 9 points on the clock, but could switch to the relegation zone on Sunday at the end of this 13 ^{e day.}

Payet precious

Three days of a capital match against the spurs at the Vélodrome, where the victory will be compulsory to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League, Igor Tudor had left several usual holders at rest like Alexis Sanchez, Nuno Tavares or Valentin Rongier.

OM, however, started foot in the floor and confiscated the ball. Quickly, the Phocaeans were dangerous with a slalom in the surface of Dimitri Payet, who made a hooks festival before serving Dieng, whose shot was cleared on his line by Thomas Delaine (6 Sup>).

The second situation was the right one: on a clearance of … Paux Lopez, the Olympian goalkeeper, Dieng took the best on Gerzino Nyamsi and placed a shot which was slightly deflected by Maxime the merchant and Lobé Matz Sels (0-1, 8 ^{e ). Then Cengiz Under put to the use of the Alsatian porter with a powerful strike (16 e ), before finding the post by taking up a Payet offering, very in technically legs and precious (26 E ).}

Mothiba sounds the revolt

The Turkish stirring was then behind the second Marseille goal with a superb opening for Jonathan Clauss, whose center was taken up at the second post by Kaboré (0-2, 35 e ). The Strasbourgers, very difficult, have just missed and did not show much in the first period, obtaining only two situations, an unpacked shot from Habib Diallo (24 e ) and a center of Adrien Thomasson deviated on his transverse bar by Jordan Veretout (38 e

é>).

Upon returning from the locker room, the physiognomy of the match has not changed between Mastery Phocaeans and clumsy Alsatians who have even been whistled by some of their supporters, a very rare event since the elite in 2017 in 2017 . OM seemed to master the game, but the reduction of the gap of Mothiba, of a beautiful strike closely in the skylight after a chest control (76 ^{e ), changed the Give.}

Marseille fell and Strasbourg, carried by its audience, multiplied the waves on the goal of Pau Lopez. Author of two parades in the background in front of Gameiro (89 e ), the Spaniard ended up falling on a superb strike from the Alsatian striker who ignited the Meinau (90 SUP> +4). What to return the OM to its frustration, before the shock of autumn to the velodrome.