OM – Toulouse: Tudor satisfied, Montanier disappointed
Olympique de Marseille in demonstration. Igor Tudor’s men largely won, six goals to one, against Toulouse Football Club thanks to goals from Valentin Rongier (13th), Rasmus Nicolaisen (41st CSC), Sead Kolasinac (51st), Dimitri Payet (62nd) , Cengiz Under (79th on penalty) and Nuno Tavares (82nd). The promoted reduced the score thanks to his captain Branco Van den Boomen surty (66th). At the end of the meeting Igor Tudor, coach of the Marseille club, was satisfied.
“The thing I remember is all the goals we scored. I’m happy for everyone who scored. One defender scored, another gave an assist. We pushed to the end and I liked all that too. With our way of playing, we spend a lot of energy and we have to be in good shape. This match will make us progress even more physically. Among the things to work on, there was a bit of a delay in attacking pressing,” he told the press.
With this big victory, Olympique de Marseille is third in Ligue 1 with 33 points, four behind Racing Club de Lens, second, and eleven behind Paris Saint-Germain, leader of the French championship.
“We must quickly forget”
For his part, Philippe Montanier, coach of the Toulouse Football Club, wishes to quickly move on to something else by projecting himself, already, on the reception of AC Ajaccio, a direct competitor for maintenance, on Sunday January 1 at 3 p.m. of the seventeenth day of Ligue 1.
“You look at the statistics, on conceding 7 shots on target and on taking 6 goals. We had 6 shots on target, we only got one. There were opportunities, especially in the first half. Then there are the circumstances of the goals. We take the second just before half-time and the third at the start of the second period. All this means that the match was quickly folded against a good team from Marseille. We must quickly forget, even if we have done good things. We are going to play Ajaccio, a match that corresponds more to our Championship. We will try to quickly delete this match and plan for the next one. It will come quickly especially since we have a little more than a day less recovery than our opponent. In terms of sporting fairness, when we meet a direct opponent, we like to play at the same time but the calendar is like that. You just have to recover physically and mentally. Sunday will be another match”, he named in a press conference after the meeting.
With this defeat, the eighth of the season, Toulouse, which is thirteenth with 16 points, is only three points ahead of the red zone. As a reminder, there will be four descents in Ligue 1 at the end of the 2022-2023 season.
to summarize
Thursday evening, Olympique de Marseille won, 6-1, against Toulouse during the sixteenth day of Ligue 1. At the end of the meeting, if Igor Tudor was satisfied, Philippe Montanier was particularly disappointed.