“Sanchez’s brilliance leads to double victory for OM over Reims”

When The boy choose to be Wonderful, just sit down and contemplate the masterpiece sculpted by the Chilean from OM. Alexis Sanchez. An aesthete, not a diva. A legend that he continues to write every week, instead of maintaining the illusion sparingly, between two runs on French lawns. A veteran of world football, from the height of his 34 years, whose relentlessness in the field and devotion to his job gave him a second youth on the shores of the Mediterranean. After his jewels fashioned against Monaco at the end of January, PSG in the Coupe de France or Nice in the twilight of summer, the goldsmith of Tocopilla did it again last night in Champagne, under the annoyed gaze of Will Still and his men, under the dazzled eyes of the people of Marseille.

A third double this season

A new double, the third since his arrival at OM (the Allianz Riviera and the Gabriel-Montpied stadium still bear the scars), combining the full panoply of the old Gunner. First finesse, to deposit a free kick love, with the help of the amount, in the nets of Yehvann Diouf (16). Then the cunning, the instinct, the relentlessness and the leadership, when he ordered Pau Lopez with his arm to play long in his direction, as if he felt the Reims defense still feverish after the stoppage of play having served to patch up Samuel Gigot’s ankle. Faithful to his mustachioed general, the Spanish goalkeeper complied, while he slipped behind Abdelhamid’s back, taken by the rebound, in order to victoriously caress the leather with the flat of his foot, on the nose and the bard of a still powerless Diouf (29).

His eleventh and twelfth goals in Ligue 1 (sixteen in all competitions) will perhaps not completely erase his bitterness born of his use, on paper, against the grain by his Croatian technician. “It’s clear that I feel frustrated“, he had also dropped, in complete transparency, after the “worst game of his career“, elimination against Annecy. The facts are nevertheless stubborn. OM never do so well when their pocket number 70 animates the tip of the Igor system, and sets the pace for Tudor pressing. And when the spotlights are Aimed at Alexis Sanchez, the frustration can be seen on the faces of his opponents.What can be said of the ordeal experienced by the young Check Keita, thrown off balance with each ball taken by the top scorer? of low blows (16, 33, 77), sense of sacrifice even in his own surface (25, 55), vista when serving caviar to his little comrades (14, 38).

Another ten matches by the end of a 2022-23 season which is his. Ten opportunities to see the wonders of the Chilean kid again. Ten breaths before drawing its future. At OM or elsewhere.