For OM, winner this Wednesday evening in the Chaudron, in Saint-Etienne (2-0), all the lights are again ... green. In the race for the Champions League, the Phoenicians, solid second, took their distances, now ahead of Rennes by 6 points, Lille by 9 and Lyon by 13 points. A real mattress.
The accounting operation is perfect and OM can say thank you to Dimitri Payet. Once again. Payet, 32, spoke this week. He knew he was expected. He answered present.
“Qualifying for the Champions League is good, playing it is better. If it is to then qualify and have a workforce that does not allow it to be played in good conditions, necessarily that I, too, will ask myself the right questions about whether to stay or go to look elsewhere, "said the Marseilles.
A brawl broke out before the match
The C1, OM is getting closer… Thanks, in particular, to a flash from Payet. He played with M'Vila to score in an impossible angle the first goal of the game. Well helped by Ruffier, it is true, who had deserted his first post. But the facts are there. The former player of the Greens (2007-2001) cooled the Cauldron, deprived of the 400 Marseille supporters who had made the trip to Forez. A brawl broke out before the match between supporters and OM fans left Saint-Etienne around 9:45 p.m. without having set foot inside the stadium.
The tear gas used by the police outside the stadium forced the players, inside, to stop their warm-up, delaying the kick-off at 9:15 p.m. But Payet, who dedicated the victory to the supporters of Marseille, was not embarrassed. He has struck again this season. Still after speaking.
A gala Payet
In November, two days before the hot OM-OL, the French international tackled his former coach Rudi Garcia, who went to the other Olympic. He then scored two goals during the match, offering prestigious success to the Marseillais (2-1). After talking too much, some are overtaken by pressure, certainly not him.
Led by a gala Payet, 7 goals this season, the players of Villas-Boas seem on the royal road to finish 2nd. The closest pursuer, Rennes, is on alternating current and the most dangerous rival on paper at the start of the season, Lyon, is mired in a crisis of result which does not end in Ligue 1 (at 13 points). Payet will be able to look into its future, OM is getting closer to C1…
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