Marseille can breathe a bit. By beating Dijon on Sunday (2-0), OM took a step towards European places since they came to one point behind Lens (5th), which drew in Lyon on Saturday.
It is also the third victory in 4 matches since the arrival of Jorge Sampaoli as coach, if the progress is not obvious, the Marseillais continue and that is what counts.
Payet double passer
If the first period was rather poor in terms of chances, even if OM dominated a harmless Dijon.
It was first Leonardo Balerdi on a corner from Dimitri Payet who opened the scoring in the last seconds of the first half (45th + 2) before Alvaro Gonzalez doubled the lead with a sudden – frank of… Payet (79th). A second goal rewarding the Marseille efforts omnipresent in the Dijon area.
Mission accomplished, therefore, for Marseille, even if a lot of work remains. On the Dijon side, the situation is a little more desperate every day. “This season, we don’t deserve much,” Burgundian president Olivier Delcourt said on Saturday.
Dijon remains red lantern by chaining a fourteenth game without a win and an eleventh defeat in a row in Ligue 1. Enough to place almost Dijon already in Ligue 2.
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