FC Nantes | Olympique de Marseille – FC Nantes
On Wednesday evening (9 p.m.), FC Nantes travels to the Bouches-du-Rhône to challenge Olympique de Marseille there as part of the 33rd day of Ligue 1 Uber Eats. Player to follow this season, current exercise and first leg, everything is there. Focus on the opponent.
The player to watch this season
Dimitri Payet sparkles!
At 35, Dimitri Payet is in sparkling shape. Author of 10 goals and 9 assists in the elite of French football this season, the player trained at La Jonelière knows one of his best exercises in the Olympian jersey (14 goals, 12 assists, all competitions combined). At least, one of the most regular since his arrival in Marseille in 2013. Captain, the native of St-Pierre (Reunion) asserts himself as a true leader for his training. Versatile, Payet also adapts to the systems put in place by Jorge Sampaoli and seems more fulfilled than ever under the orders of the Argentine coach. Able to evolve on the front of the attack or in a corridor, it is as a playmaker that the number 10 Olympian makes the powder speak. The Nantes coach, Antoine Kombouaré, was also complimentary of a boy he likes. “He is often decisive and he is even the flagship player of this Marseille team. He is the technical boss, often decisive, capable of scoring exceptional goals. He is a great player. He came out of the center of Nantes and that, that speaks to me. (…) He is not an easy boy to manage, capable of sulking, but he is a winner and a competitor with great statistics. I also like the boy he is, with his temperament.”
There is no doubt that Payet is indeed THE player to follow this season in the ranks of Olympique de Marseille.
Dimitri Payet, here in front of Dennis Appiah, is the spearhead of the Marseille offensive.
The 2021-2022 financial year
Current 2nd in the elite (59 pts), the players of Olympique de Marseille are carrying out a successful 21-22 exercise, which is more in the league. Indeed, the Marseillais have 17 successes, 8 wins and 7 losses this season. Better training away from their bases (33 pts taken, 10 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats), OM are – surprisingly – having much more difficulty at home. In front of their supporters, Jorge Sampaoli’s proteges are in 9th place in the standings, with 7 successes and above all, 9 matches without winning (5 draws, 4 losses).
Third defense of the hexagon and solid in this sector of play (31 goals conceded), Marseille also has a lively attack (4th, 52 goals for), in particular thanks to the great form of Dimitri Payet but also to a successful bet, named Cengiz Under (9 goals in L1). Enough to go straight for a place in the Champions League next season? The fight promises to be tight until the final day of the championship!
Still in contention in the European Cup and qualified for the semi-finals of the Europa League Conference, the next opponent in the championship of the Yellow and Green comes out of a breathtaking but victorious double confrontation against PAOK Salonika, in the quarter-finals. In order to reach the last step of this European competition, OM will now have to get rid of Feyenoord Rotterdam (Netherlands). First leg scheduled in Holland on April 28. Return match at the Stade Orange Vélodrome scheduled for May 8.
Regarding the Coupe de France, the Olympians saw their adventure come to an end on the lawn of the Allianz Riviera in Nice, in the quarter-finals of the competition (4-1). Nice, which will also be the opponent of FC Nantes, on May 7 at the Stade de France.
On loan from the Arsenal Gunners to Olympique de Marseille, William Saliba, here in the fight with Moses Simon, is having a full season under the Olympian tunic.
The first leg
On December 1st at La Beaujoire, the Yellow and Greens welcomed OM on behalf of the 16th day of L1. Led after half an hour of play and an achievement signed Gerson (30′), Nantes will even be reduced to numerical inferiority a few moments later after the expulsion of Nicolas Pallois (32′). Well in place despite everything but not very threatening, the Canaries will not be able to come back up to the Phocaeans.
Find the best moments of this meeting in video!