These are two seriously diminished and disrupted teams in their preparation who faced each other tonight. Already poorly classified, the Bordelais wanted to keep their 44 years of unbeaten time at home against OM at Matmut-Atlantique, but while the technical director of the club Admar Lopes had left the threat of a withdrawal on Thursday following the refusal of the LFP to report, Vladimir Petkovic’s men finally decided to play.
And it was Olympique de Marseille who finally won 1-0. Turkish striker Cengiz Under scored the only goal of the game in the 37th minute, taking advantage of a poor recovery from Bordeaux goalkeeper Benoît Costil . Returned to sparkling form after a drop in speed at the end of 2021, the Turk scored his second goal at the start of the year (scorer against US Chauvigny in the 16th of the Coupe de France on January 2 ).
Masters of the ball and volunteers, the Olympians were patient until an error by the Bordeaux goalkeeper Costil, and a killer Cengiz (0-1, 37th).
After suffering throughout the first period, the Girondins woke up a bit in the second, with a few chances like Hwang (69th) or Adli (73rd), but it was too little to worry the Phocaeans.
The Girondins really did not need that and will certainly sink even further in the standings (17th, 1 point ahead of 19th Lorient but with one more match) … On the Marseille side, all the lights are green with a provisional second place (not counting the match against OL to be replayed).