Ligue 1: OM Gattuso version wins its first victory against Le Havre

2023-10-08 15:21:35

The Vélodrome holds its first victory of the Gattuso era. Thursday evening, in the Europa League, the English from Brighton deprived him of this joy in the final minutes of the match (2-2). This time, there were no unpleasant surprises. Olympique de Marseille won this Sunday afternoon seriously against promoted Le Havre (3-0) as part of the 8th day of Ligue 1.

There is inevitably some relief, on the part of the management which can finally draw a line under a month of September plunged into chaos. The Gattuso method is starting to take hold and this is finally showing in the results. For his third match in charge, the Italian made some adjustments to his 4-2-3-1 (Ounahi and Sarr instead of Veretout and Correa) but maintained a clear idea: Amine Harit will have the keys to the game he continues like this. Still in a chair against the HAC in a number ten role, the Moroccan ends the game with an assist. A statistic which says nothing about the finesse of his passes in the intervals for his attackers.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang managed to quickly make one of them profitable with a sublime lob a few meters from the cages of Arthur Desmas (21st). OM were already leading 2-0, since three minutes earlier, captain Arouna Sangante was guilty of a CSC. The expulsion just before the break of Rassoul Ndiaye ended the hopes of the Normans.

At the very end of the match, Ismaïla Sarr increased the score thanks to a superb backheel at the end of the race from Aubameyang (84th). Three goals scored, zero conceded, that hadn’t happened for a while at the Vélodrome. Before the afternoon matches, HAC was relegated to 13th place (9 points) while OM climbed to 6th (12 pts).

Gennaro Gattuso once again brought his men together at the final whistle. “He said that was the way, that you had to have that mentality of not conceding a goal at home. The first two goals did us a lot of good. We learned from our mistakes and controlled the match quite well,” said captain Valentin Rongier at Prime Video.