OM may be owned by an American businessman, but he loves to play roller coasters.
Stuck in a violent crisis, the Phocéens initially thought they were heading towards easy success by leading by two goals at the break.
But they then lost their advantage in fifteen minutes watch in hand to, in the end, be happy to leave the Bollaert stadium with a point in their pocket (2-2).
“We are living a difficult period but we remembered that when we were little, we all dreamed of playing at this level, nevertheless estimated Florian Thauvin at the end of the first period.
So, we took the problems out of our heads to act as when we were little.
“The concern is that OM then played the second half like little ones…
Before the meeting, the Marseillais were already in full involuntary homage to their hosts: in the land of the Corons, they had dug very deeply in their quest for ridicule.
And with big pickaxes.
His two stars Payet and Thauvin, so far from their latest hits, despise each other in public.
And after the violent intrusion last Saturday of supporters at the Commanderie, the gap has widened further.
Milik's first goal
André Villas-Boas, the Portuguese technician, outperformed on his own, Tuesday, a scene from a famous turnip "
Where did you come in, we didn't see you leaving?"
"And announced his resignation since the club" dared "to recruit a player, Olivier Ntcham, whom he did not want.
In reality, a crude pretext to leave the Marseille club which, in retaliation, lays him off.
It's finish?
Never with OM: before flying to Lens, defender Alvaro Gonzalez allegedly insulted a police officer who asked him to wear a mask at the airport… Great art.
In this context, the trip to the North was hot.
This OM, led by an interim, Nasser Larguet, the director of the training center, did he have anything to offer other than the sinister spectacle of his slow implosion?
He displayed that of his pride and his weaknesses.
First by making the round back facing more impactful Northerners before appealing to talent.
And Thauvin is not lacking.
A sumptuous sequence of control-strike victorious at the entrance to the surface (0-1, 37th), demonstrates it.
OM needed this click as if it whistled the end of trouble.
Especially since, in stoppage time, Alvaro's strike is extended into the goal by the new recruit, the Polish Milik (0-2, 45th + 2).
But with OM, certainty is an unknown concept: thirty seconds after the restart, Florian Sotoca reduced the gap with a shot at the far post (1-2, 46th).
A quarter of an hour later, Medina equalizes by taking over a cross from Clauss (2-2, 61st).
The rest of the debates are one-sided, but OM clings to their point like a frail lifeline in the sinking.
But Sunday, it will take much more to exist during the clasico against PSG.