2023-12-07 00:53:30
Couple Lucas Michel
Published yesterday at 10:55 p.m., Updated yesterday at 11:53 p.m.
Vitinha and Aubameyang, the main architects of the Olympian victory on Wednesday. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP
A little over a month after the fiasco of October 29, OM pushed OL a little further thanks in particular to Aubameyang (3-0).
There will have been no suspense. More than a month after the stone crushing of the Lyon bus upon its arrival at the Vélodrome, prior to the postponement of the October 29 match, Olympique de Marseille made short work of Olympique Lyonnais in a match late by the 10th day this Wednesday evening (3-0). The tension surrounding this “Olympico” which is Olympic in name only will have passed. Way too quickly. Because after arriving in an unmarked and escorted bus, the Lyonnais kept their thirst for revenge in the locker room. However, they “wanted to do battle”, according to their goalkeeping coach Rémy Vercoutre. It was time for OM to break the deadlock, or rather the latch, of OL’s defense.
It was brief and above all clinical. Time for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to sign two offerings, one for his friend Vitinha (20th), the other for the Panamanian Amir Murillo (25th), he who replaced the feverish French international Jonathan Clauss. In five minutes, the locals set ablaze a Vélodrome which did not necessarily need it but above all cut off the legs of Lyonnais incapable of ringing in revolt. From the helplessness of Alexandre Lacazette to the casualness of Rayan Cherki, everything rang false at OL. This was without taking into account the poor choices of the Lyon wingers, who had the merit of finding their extension in the choice of their new jersey.
Aubameyang-Vitinha, the fresh connection
It is worth highlighting an embryonic redemption after returning from the locker room, but Ernest Nuamah missed the target from close range (46th) and the hope aroused by the tactical reorganization was finally nipped in the bud by Aubameyang, decidedly the big man of the evening. The former Stéphanois, who had never scored against OL, delivered the final blow after an exchange with Vitinha, who returned the favor to validate Gattuso’s choice. Not always comforted by his choices, the Italian technician thus relaunched a hitherto not very prolific association between the two men.
Released to the cheers of a Vélodrome which had whistled him six days earlier before his hat-trick against Ajax Amsterdam (4-3), the Gabonese closed a successful week (also scoring against Rennes on Sunday) which sounds like a click. The observation is similar for Vitinha, author of one of his best matches with OM this Wednesday evening.
Opposite, the click will wait. Because the hopes born from the good match and the dearly paid defeat in Lens (3-2) were swept away by the Marseille rival this Wednesday. A rival who signs a third victory in a row in the Olympico for the first time since 1994, which says a lot about the reversed dynamics between the two teams, while OL took great pleasure in regularly tormenting OM , particularly at the Vélodrome, for two decades. But OL are here in December 2023, dead last in Ligue 1 without being good, and condemned to fight for their survival in the elite.
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