By going to win 3-1 in Le Havre, notably thanks to Double d’Amine Gouiri, Marseille made a place on the podium and a direct qualification for the Champions League next season, at the end of the 33rd day of Ligue 1 on Saturday.
With 62 points, OM remains 2nd before the last day and can no longer be joined by Nice (4th), Lille (5th) or Strasbourg (6th), all beaten on Saturday and which have only 57.
Le Havre, it, 16th and virtual barragist with 31 points, remains under the threat of Saint-Etienne, 17th with 30 units but still Nantes (15th) and Reims (14th) within reach.
Serious and applied, Marseille knew how to pull herself up after seeing disrupted by an interruption of the match which lasted almost 30 minutes and caused by the start of a fight in the gallery, shortly after the hour of play.
Referee Willy Delajod had immediately interrupted the match and returned the players to the locker room.
A few minutes earlier, Marseille had just found the fault thanks to the untenable Amine Gouiri. Well launched by Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, the Algerian had taken advantage of a missed of Captain Le Havrais Arouna Sangante, to adjust Mathieu Gorgelin du Law (0-1, 56th).
The advantage was completely logical as Marseille had dominated the debates until then.
It was just able to blame a small lack of variety in the attacks to the men of Roberto de Zerbi, as well as a lack of realism.
– Greenwood takes things in hand –
From the 3rd minute, Jonathan Rowe, tenured on the left wing, set a first resumption of Gouiri to the six meters which had seemed to have to fly.
A little later, Adrien Rabiot lacked success on a head that crashed on the transverse (10th), served by a brilliant center from the outside of Mason Greenwood.
The Englishman, on his right flank, has long been the main Olympian threat, but his attempts were either overwhelmed (21st), non-cadré (23rd) or found Gorgelin’s firm hand on his way (29th).
After the opening of the scoring by Gouiri and the interruption, Marseille seemed to have trouble returning to the match while Le Havre played his all-out.
And on a counter, favored by a poorly placed defense, Issa Soumaré had been the most quick to take over a center at the ground and put the two teams on a par (1-1, 66th).
After a few minutes of floating, Greenwood resumed things in hand and on a ball that seemed completely trivial on the right, he rebuilt in the center and wrapped a sublime strike from the left which came to caress the interior of the small net of Gorgelin, helpless (1-2, 86th).
In a unbridled end of the match, Josué Casimir and Loïc Nego missed an excellent opportunity to equalize again (90th) before Gouiri definitively compost the European ticket in Marseille at the end of additional time (1-3, 90+8).
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