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Pau Lopez and Vito Mannone last solid ramparts
In a match where opportunities were very rare on both sides, the two goalkeepers thwarted the few Marseille and Lorient attempts of the evening.
OM's Spanish goalkeeper finished with 5 saves, including one on a left-footed strike from Bamba Dieng, Merlus' best opportunity.
The Italian goalkeeper from Lorient made 2 saves, unspectacular, but effective.
Must say that Marseille has framed only two shots in all.
The hake defensive trio
To counter the Marseillais, Régis Le Bris had decided to model himself on the system of Igor Tudor by aligning three central defenders and two pistons.
The three behind: Mëité, Talbi and Le Goff proved to be very solid in the face of Marseille's offensive attempts.
It was necessary to be concentrated and strong on the few incursions of OM and the three defenders of Lorient were.
Bamo Mëité has often been solid, especially against Nuno Tavares on his side.
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The offensive animation
Difficult to underline anything other than the offensive animation as a negative point of a match where the final score is 0-0.
Especially this Sunday evening between Lorient and Marseille where the clear opportunities did not exist.
Lorient finished with 5 shots on target, OM with 2 and if we are to believe the "
expected goals
" statistics (0.45 for Lorient against 0.85 for OM) the final score is logical.
Pistons out of adjustment
For several matches, the pistons no longer respond to Marseille.
The X factors at the start of the season are no longer at the level they used to us.
Nuno Tavares and Jonathan Clauss, who lost 40 balls between them against Montpellier in the last match, lost another 32. The Portuguese finished with 67 balls touched, 18 lost, only 3 duels won out of 11 and 1 successful dribble out of 5 attempted .
Clauss lost 14 balls on 60 touchdowns and brought practically nothing offensively.
Tudor Coaching
Once again Igor Tudor was not very inspired by positioning Matteo Guendouzi behind Alexis Sanchez.
The French midfielder did not bring offensively and was sometimes a little lost on the lawn of Moustoir.
Moreover, the Croatian waited until the 80th minute to make his first substitution.
Quite inexplicable situation as his team was so uninspired.