OM have lost too many points this season at home to trivialize a victory at home. Above all, once again, there were more than 60,000 Marseille supporters in the grounds of Boulevard Michelet, despite the closure of the Fanatics parking lot. They had goals,emotion with Dimitri Payet’s winning goal, so it’s a beautiful evening. Lens won Reims on Friday evening, everyone had time to take the news, in fact, no one was surprised when they saw the rankings after the 35th day: OM are still 3rd, and the podium is almost assured since there are now 8 points ahead of Monaco out of nine to distribute. Top. Already that in fact, focus now on second place? Except that, by pushing the observation of the classification more closely, we realize that Lens has two more points and two more goals in goal average (+32 against +30). Before next week’s turn (OM travel to Lille when Lens go to Lorient), it would perhaps have been interesting to put pressure on the Sang et Or team by making them feel that a simple draw can put them back in third place.
What if Tudor didn’t want to put the gum too much on?
So that will not be the case. Not this time, we will have to wait more surely for the reception of Brest, or even the trip to Ajaccio. Remember that it would have done, last season, at the very last second even without Ganago’s goal (for … Lens) since Stéphanie Frappart would have whistled a penalty against Strasbourg for a 5-0 which would have allowed them to come back in front Monaco at the goal average. Igor Tudor may also be saving that for a crazy finale. In any case, he clearly did not aim for the card against the red lantern even if the starting composition was offensive. Two post-for-post changes after the hour mark. Two defenders replacing a midfielder and a striker in the 75th minute. We can say that this caution is life-saving, because Sima could have again been successful on the counterattack and equalized, at that time in the match when there was only a goal in advance. There is also the possibility of saying that the Croatian has taken the part of telling himself that the question of goal difference will be settled later, that what matters above all is to have as many players as possible 100% in Lille and in this sense, the outings of Sanchez, Clauss, as well as the playing time given to Nuno Tavares and Vitinha could make the difference in six days. We won’t know until Saturday night. In the meantime, we can appreciate the fact that OM finished two consecutive seasons on the podium, a first for… twelve years (champion in 2009-2010, second in 2010-2011).
#Angers #twelve #years
