Very disappointing and beaten in Lorient on Sunday (3-2), Paris SG will not finish the weekend at the top of Ligue 1, after a 22nd day marred by violence on Saturday in Marseille, whose players, "very shocked" , are starting to recover.
After a day of incidents in the Marseille city, marked by the intrusion of several supporters into the OM training center, football resumed its rights on Sunday, with the meeting of the extremes opposing Paris to the Merlus in Morbihan .
On the lawn, however, the gap was not glaring between the new leader of the classification and the former Breton red lantern ... PSG believed to survive thanks to two surgical penalties from Neymar, but Yoane Wissa, then Terem Moffi in the last few seconds, gave FCL a resounding feat.
This is the first Parisian defeat since the arrival of Mauricio Pochettino on the bench: the Argentinian will undoubtedly have to review his plans, because his “Fantastic Four” (Mbappé, Neymar, Icardi, Di Maria) have not shown big thing in the middle of the afternoon.
Eyraud condemns a "surge of violence"
In Nice, the fans were not in the stands (behind closed doors) to attend the 9th defeat of the season for their Azureans, at worst.
This took shape at the very end of the game against another troubled club, Saint-Etienne, after a goal from striker Charles Abi (88th), after a long uncertain match.
Claude Puel's men, also heckled the day before in their training center by their supporters, but in a fairly peaceful way this time, can finally breathe after three straight setbacks.
“We are in a complicated period, we hope that this result will allow us to continue.
We gave a good image ”, satisfied Abi at the microphone of the Téléfoot channel.
The Greens are back in 16th place, four points ahead of the jump-off position occupied by Lorient.
For Nice, the urgency is greater, with a 13th place and only 26 units.
In this heart of classification, Reims was able to take the best of Strasbourg at La Meinau (1-0), while a little higher in the table, Metz went on to string together a third victory in a row, by winning at Brest (4-2).
The Mosellans are sixth!
Another competitor for maintenance, Nîmes for its part sank on the lawn of Angers (3-1), and now occupies the last rank with 14 defeats in 21 matches.
But the event of this French football weekend will remain extra-sporting, with an Olympique de Marseille bruised by the punch operation carried out on Saturday by a few hundred supporters, some of whom entered the Commanderie, the center of training, a few hours from OM-Rennes, match finally postponed.
“The players are still very shocked by what happened.
They saw an unprecedented surge of violence, incredible, by its intensity, “reacted President Jacques-Henri Eyraud on TF1 Sunday morning, while 18 people were still in custody in parallel.
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