Despite a lighter schedule than their competitors, the
Marseille
had no time to think. This seemed like good news for this team still in search of certainty. Roberto De Zerbi’s gang was back at it again this Friday evening, five days after conceding their first setback of the season, in Strasbourg (0-1).
To restart the machine, OM had to enforce its standing against Angers, in a match a priori within its reach, at least on paper. Because SCO, bottom of this championship, and the only Ligue 1 team not to have unlocked its victory counter this season, represented a very relative threat to Marseille. But against all expectations, OM got tripped up again, at the end of a strange scenario where the residents of the Vélodrome never really found the right fuel.
OM running out of ideas
The Marseillais quickly displayed their offensive intentions, without being stifling in their pressing. Opposite, Angers tried to square the field to reduce the spaces with a compact block. And we believed that OM would still gain the upper hand in this little game when Rao-Lisoa quickly left his teammates at ten (26th). This was without counting on the expulsion of Maupay, in the process, to put the two teams back on equal numerical terms (30th).
The fact remains that a ten-on-ten match does not at all have the same configuration as a normal meeting. The Angevins quickly realized this. With the idea of countering, the visitors became more and more threatening as the lines stretched.
Angers gained confidence
However, it was Marseille who took the advantage thanks to the man in form of the moment, the young Englishman Rowe, author of a superb sequence in the area (1-0, 51st). But the promoted showed a lot of personality, and once again, the response came in three minutes flat, with an equalizer from El Melali coming to shower this Vélodrome which already sounded a little hollow (1-1, 54th).
The last half hour was not more flashy for these Marseillais out of ideas. The entries of Wahi or Rabiot have changed nothing. Worse, Angers could have made the perfect shot with a little more foresight on the counterattacks, but the score didn’t change. OM is really stalling.
