Attractive, Monaco brings back a point from Marseille
The Monegasques had a breathtaking first half but saw the Marseillais come back after the break. The two teams left back to back (1-1) this Saturday evening at the Stade Vélodrome.
The game: 1-1
The shock at the top of this 20th day of Ligue 1 has kept all its promises. At the end of a spectacular meeting, which saw the two teams each have their half-time, Olympique de Marseille and AS Monaco had to settle for sharing the points, rather benefiting the Marseillais in the race for the podium.
And the Monegasques could even harbor some regrets at the end of this match, as long as their first period was controlled and not far from being the most beautiful face shown by Philippe Clément’s men this season for forty-five minutes.
Dominating from the start, the Monegasques were rewarded for their intentions by opening the scoring on a cross from Aleksandr Golovin who forced Jordan Veretout to head the ball into his own net (0-1, 17′). Close to breaking several times, Axel Disasi’s teammates were clumsy or fell on a great Ruben Blanco.
Like this strike from Krépin Diatta pushed back after a solitary rush (28′) or this face to face between Wissam Ben Yedder and the Spanish goalkeeper, who turned to the advantage of the second on a ball stung too tenderly by the French international and that Blanco was able to push back in his area (29′).
Many missed opportunities, which allowed the Marseillais to return from the locker room in the second period with other intentions. More pressing, the locals quickly returned to the game, taking advantage of a handball from Alexander Nübel, who prevented the return of Olympique de Marseille.
Following a strike from Nuno Tavares badly deflected by the German goalkeeper, Alexis Sanchez followed perfectly in the box and pushed the ball into the back of the net (1-1, 47′). Enough to completely relaunch OM. In a second period to the advantage of the locals, the Monegasques suffered, passing close to the second goal, on a header from Leonardo Balerdi who ended his race on the crossbar (73′).
On arrival, the two teams left back to back, not doing the business of AS Monaco, still relegated to five points behind their opponents of the day in the standings. Next meeting for the Monegasques, this Wednesday evening (9 p.m.) at the Louis II stadium against AJ Auxerre.
The player: Eliesse Ben Seghir still impresses
The young Monegasque nugget, once again established by Philippe Clément, has shown great maturity to offer a successful performance. One more.
Close to opening the scoring at the very beginning of the match with a left foot (3′), Elisse Ben Seghir showed a lot of game intelligence, while enormously volume in his races, regularly proposing solutions to his partners.
Touched during a contact by Jordan Veretout, who dragged his sole illicitly causing the Monegasque attacking midfielder to take off his shoes, Ben Seghir was forced to give way to Gelson Martins (68′). Hoping nothing serious for the one who has already made himself indispensable in the Monegasque eleven in the space of a handful of weeks.
The number: 12
Monaco is now undefeated in its last twelve matches where it opened the scoring in Ligue 1, i.e. since August 31 against Troyes (2-4 at the Louis-II stadium).
The sentence: “We have to fold the match in the first period”
Youssouf Fofana : “We inevitably have big regrets in the first period. We have to bend the game, but it’s a bit of our cute sin this season, we can’t kill the games when we have the chance. It’s always good to leave the Vélodrome with a point. We will have to confirm in the next matches. »