We are in April 2000 and the OM of Bernard Casoni, in bad shape, then fights to save his skin in Ligue 1. The reception of AS Monaco which, for its part, prances at the top of the ranking, remains in all case in the memories of many. In addition to the victory of the Marseillais (4-2) in a heated Velodrome, it is the altercation between Christophe Galtier and Marcelo Gallardo, then playmaker of the Monegasques, which is still talking today.
In the columns of So Foot, Claude Puel, the Monegasque coach at the time, looks back on a meeting which, according to him, shattered the dynamic of his team: “It broke the dynamic of the group, we ended up in a fishtail. Three days later, we had the semi-final of the Coupe de France against Nantes, we lost it because we were not there … We ended the season … Not coasting … But it wasn’t the same. ” The current coach of the Greens even believes that following the tensions between players and staff at half-time, he should have stopped the match at the break! “In Marseille, at half-time, I should have made the decision not to return to the field. It is the decision that I should have taken, even if it would have had serious consequences.”
Difficult to know what would have happened to the fate of this meeting. One thing is certain, OM overcame Monaco with goals from Pouget, Bakayoko twice then Brando and escaped that year on the last day, while Monaco was declared champion of France well before the end. of the championship.
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