The season started badly for an OM promising to be a pretender in the title. On the Rennes field, at Roazhon Park, the Marseillais bowed 1-0 to raising the curtain of the French championship. A slap all the more scathing as the Olympians have evolved into numerical superiority from half an hour of play.
For a sole on Murillo, the young Aït-Boudlal saw red prematurely in this part (31e). An alleged handicap that the Bretons have been able to transform into strength, more united still on the meadow, and above all much more grouped and camped on their rear. All with a projection capacity long embodied by Al-Tamari, and finally victoriously exploited by a blas entered the last five minutes of the match.
OM in difficulty on its rear
OM in the interval has certainly dominated, multiplying in particular the corners in vain (no less than 12) and touching wood twice – by Rabiot in the first act and Murillo after the break. Only the team coached by Roberto de Zerbi, in the absence of a suspended medina, also showed naivety on the defensive level. And this despite the still remarkable performance of the young Egan-Riley.
Weah and Aubameyang, two of the six Marseille summer recruits, launched in the second act, did nothing. And blas, nicely put in orbit by Merlin, for having taken care of planting the fatal band to the Olympians, in the Money Time (1-0, 90e+1). A cruel scenario, of course, for OM, which will imperatively have to raise its head in eight days at the Vélodrome against Paris FC. Stade Rennais will try to confirm during a Breton derby in Lorient.
