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Dimitri Payet before his dismissal, here in a duel with Paris midfielder Idrissa Gueye
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Compared to the first leg, the second leg match between Olympique Marseille and arch-rivals Paris Saint-Germain was downright tame.
In September, Marseille's victory in Paris resulted in five dismissals in stoppage time, and the final minutes were more like a brawl than a football game.
At the Vélodrome in Marseille, where Kylian Mbappé (9th minute) and Mauro Icardi (24th) scored for the Parisians 2-0 (2-0) away win, the only red card of the evening went to Dimitri Payet (90 + 1).
The 33-year-old midfielder had kicked his opponent Marco Verratti in the final minutes in the fight for the ball at hip height, the Italian lay on the floor in pain for minutes.
The Paris substitution contingent was already exhausted at this point, Verratti saw the end of the game on the pitch, but could hardly intervene in the game.
But he didn't have to: Mbappé with a quick counterattack and Icardi with a headed arc lamp had already decided the game in the first half.
For Olympique Marseille, a tumultuous game week ends with a defeat: on the Saturday of the previous week, violent fans had devastated the club grounds.
On Tuesday, ex-coach André Villas-Boas offered to resign after Olivier Ntcham was signed by Celtic Glasgow against his will.
Interim coach Nasser Larguet was on the sidelines against PSG.
Marseille are ninth after the game, Paris third, three points behind leaders OSC Lille.
The game was almost not broadcast in France: Mediapro, a Spanish company that had acquired the TV rights to the French Ligue 1, is insolvent and has already owed the agreed installments in the three-digit million range in the past two quarters.
It was only on Thursday that the league agreed on an emergency contract with long-term cooperation partner Canal +, which ensured the TV broadcast and payments of 370 million euros.
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