It will have been necessary to wait for the 10th day, and the reception of a promoted first takeable for a team in full swing in the Championship, to see Olympique de Marseille fall. Eight days before the Classic against the enemy PSG, the Marseillais tripped over the mat on Saturday afternoon against AC Ajaccio (1-2).
Undefeated so far, after 7 wins and 2 draws allowing them to follow the Parisian leader in the standings, also reassured by their first success in the Champions League of their season (4-1 against Sporting Portugal, Tuesday), OM experienced an unexpected poor performance at the Vélodrome.
Payet would have preferred to celebrate his centenary differently
Dimitri Payet’s hundredth goal in Ligue 1, established in a slightly reshaped team, had nevertheless ideally launched the Olympians (1-0, 15th sp), but it will not have been enough. Bevic Moussiti-Oko equalized (1-1, 25th) before Leonardo Balerdi offered victory to the promoted Corsican from an unfortunate CSC (1-2, 47th).
“We must not look for excuses, even today technically we missed a lot of fairly simple gestures, in the last 30 meters, simple passes … We were not at the level, regretted the Marseille defender Samuel Leg on the microphone of Prime Video. We have to get back to work quickly, continue to work hard and be ready on Wednesday because we still have a big game and Sunday too. »
The Corsican red lantern went to surprise OM on their lawn, plunging Igor Tudor’s men into doubt before their trip from C1 to Sporting Lisbon on Wednesday, and especially the shock of the Championship against PSG on Sunday.