OM | OM-Brest – History: March 5, 1985, three goals in ten minutes

That season, Brest was much better than OM. A victory in Marseille would have placed the Breton club in fifth place, just behind Toulon (!) And ahead of Monaco. A defeat would have left OM in sixteenth position, with just four lengths ahead of Strasbourg and Tours, the first two relegated. And that’s what almost happened on that cold winter evening. “We weren’t good at all !, exclaims Bernard Zénier. In the end, we overturned everything in ten minutes and we stirred the stadium, well the few people who were present, because there were not 50,000 people “(see opposite).” Miracle at the Vélodrome “had titled Alain Pécheral in” Le Provençal “, writing : “When the real one is
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