OM lose to Monaco and lose their runners-up spot
Olympique de Marseille lost by the smallest of margins against AS Monaco this Sunday evening at the end of the 27th day of Ligue 1 (0-1). A very bad operation for the players of Jorge Sampaoli who thus lose their place of dolphin of the PSG and thus finish the weekend on the third step of the podium. It is above all a bad series which continues in the league for the Phocaeans, since it is the third game without success after the defeat at home against Clermont (0-2) and the draw obtained in Troyes (1- 1).
OM however had the ball in this match against the players of Le Rocher but did not know how to create dangerous enough chances, nor to be killer enough in front of goal to even take a point this Sunday evening. . Monaco, for its part, gave a real lesson in efficiency by scoring through Gelson Martins on almost the only big chance of the match that the club got (0-1, 58′). Philippe Clément’s men having mainly operated in counter-attack throughout the game.
It is thus a bad dynamic that is established in the Marseille city, a few days before the reception of the Swiss from Basel in the round of 16 of the Europa League Conference. A match that will have to be won at all costs, and if possible, with several goals, before going to the other side of the Swiss border the following week for the return match.