Something is always happening during the clashes between OL and OM.
It smells of sulfur, it smells of rivalry.
Always.
Even when the two teams are far from being at their best, far from their ambitions and dreams of the podium.
One, OL, had not won a match since August, yet with a workforce that would delight all Ligue 1 coaches except Thomas Tuchel, but of which the vast majority of management players wanted to leave the Rhône this summer.
The other, OM, is the ghost of last season's team.
Two lame and one… weird match, which ended in a draw (1-1).
With an OM very quickly reduced to 10 (from the 18th minute) following a sole from Payet to Dubois.
The Phocéens suffered the whole match.
Before after.
"Defensively, it was complicated with the expulsion of Dimitri," Pape Gueye explained at Téléfoot's microphone.
We had to be all together.
“Lyon has created a multitude of favorable situations (22 shots, 5 on target), but only managed to achieve one penalty from Aouar.
Long announced starting, the playing master of Gones, very involved this Sunday evening, will finally stay in Lyon this season.
OL can only be happy about it.
But Lyon, unable to win an 11 against 10 match for 72 minutes, continues to stagnate.
With only 7 goals scored this season, including 4 penalties and 1 own goal.
“It's a disappointment,” admitted Jason Denayer.
We are redundant, we create opportunities, but we can not materialize.
"
Payet's rapid expulsion does not justify everything
Rudi Garcia will also have to find the words to remobilize Memphis Depay.
The whimsical Dutchman already saw himself at Barça.
He had come to an agreement with the Catalan club.
He dreamed of flying to Camp Nou.
And unless there is a turnaround by Monday night midnight, he too will continue the Lyon adventure.
Like Moussa Dembélé, his accomplice in the attack.
Both were substitutes at kick-off.
Both have been unrecognizable since the start of the season.
At the other Olympic, the situation is not much better, even if the team resisted until the end and the coach André Villas-Boas judged to have acquired "a good point".
"An irreproachable state of mind", noted Florian Thauvin for his part.
But since its prestigious success at the Park (1-0), on September 13, the band in Villas-Boas does not offer much.
The rapid expulsion of Payet does not justify everything.
By the end of the transfer window, Marseille will lose Bouna Sarr, expected this Monday at Bayern Munich, and target Centonze (Metz) and Lala (Strasbourg) to replace him.
The young Bayern midfielder, Michaël Cuisance (21), will be loaned to Marseille.
OM, which will face Olympiakos and Manchester City, is not ready.
It's the least we can say.
MATCH SHEET
Lyon - Marseilles
Half-time: 1-1
Spectators: 1000
Referee: Mme Frappart
Goals.
Lyon: Aouar (28th sp).
Marseille: Payet (16th).
Warnings.
Lyon: Bard (87th).
Marseille: Caleta-Car (4th)
Expulsion.
Marseille: Payet (19th).
Lyon
: Lopes - Dubois (cap.), Marcelo (Diomandé 85th), Denayer, Bard - Caqueret (Guimaraes 69th), Thiago Mendes - Toko Ekambi (Cherki 85th), Aouar, Cornet (Memphis 69th) - Kadewere (Dembélé 77th).
Entr
.
: Garcia
Marseille
: Mandanda (cap.) - Sakai, Alvara, Caleta-Car, Amavi - Sanson, Kamara (Gueye 61st), Rongier - Thauvin (Lopez 75th), Benedetto (Radonjic 61st), Payet.
Entr.
: Villas-Boas
