It was a totally new-Look Marseille Olympic who appeared against Ajax on Tuesday evening for the return of the Champions League to the VĂ©lodrome stadium. The Phocaeans simply started with eight summer recruits. The only “survivors” of last season? Tauliers Geronimo Rulli and Mason Greenwood, and young Bilal Nadir.
Roberto de Zerbi did not hesitate to align four defense recruits, including the already convincing Emerson and Nayef Aguerd. In attack, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang confirmed his excellent start to the season while Igor Paixao, whose adaptation was hampered by an injury, freed himself with a pretty double.
First successful tenure for Arthur Vermeeren.
In parallel, the midfielder gave satisfaction. While Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg was left on the bench, the pair formed by Matt O'riley and Arthur Vermeeren was one of the beautiful surprises of the meeting. The Belgian, very technically comfortable, active and combative, is notably at the origin of the second and the fourth goal.
VERMEEREN definitively transferred to OM?
It was the first tenure for Vermeeren, after some fairly neutral entries. And immediately, many OM supporters went to find out about the 20 -year -old contractual situation, loaned by Leipzig. The purchase option set at around 20 million euros, more or less the amount paid by the German club to recruit it from Atlético, appears in the strings of the Olympian club.
Medhi Benatia is in any case won over. “He's a real football player, very happy for him. Even if he is only loaned, necessarily, if he goes on such performances and that the project pleases him, I think it may be someone that we will have to see here for a few years ”said the Olympian leader after OM-Ajax.
