Ten years later, Olympique de Marseille has still not won a clasico at the Stade-Vélodrome. The opportunity was good, however, facing a PSG reduced to ten after the expulsion of Ashraf Hakimi before the hour mark (57e). But between an improbable failure of Konrad de La Fuente alone at the far post (77e) and a crying lack of precision (15 shots but no target), the Marseillais can feed regrets after this draw (0-0). This Sunday, October 24, the Parisian leader was eligible for the closing of this 11e Ligue 1 day.
By its atmosphere, this “classic” has first kept all its promises. The Velodrome was white-hot, perhaps too much. Between the projectile throws on a Neymar struggling to shoot a corner and the attempted intrusion of a hundred supporters without tickets, OM – subject to a suspended penalty point following the match against Nice – tifo risks losing this point gained in the field. The tifo “LFP merda” against the Professional Football League may not settle the affairs of the club.
The police headquarters announced that hundreds of people tried to force their way into the Velodrome stadium… https://t.co/DsrwV8kjBY
And what about this action of the 73e minute? On one of the rare Parisian cons in the second half, Lionel Messi was slowed down by a Marseille supporter who came to compensate for the imbalance in the defense of his team. The Argentinian’s gaze said a lot then about his disbelief.
Two goals canceled by VAR
If there was no need for video refereeing to expel this intruder, the VAR (video referee assistance) was the big protagonist of this match in the first half. In the space of seven minutes, Parisians and Marseillais will think of holding the opener. At the 14e minute, Neymar blindly crosses and finds Luans Peres who tackles the ball in his own goals. But the OM defender was saved by VAR for an offside from the Brazilian at the start of the action.
Initiated by Kamara, the action of the Marseille goal is a model of its kind between the center of Lirola and the control chained with a clear shot from Arkadiusz Milik. But the Pole’s joy was short-lived. Video assistance signals Pol Lirola’s offside and invalidates the goal.
The match then slows down. Neymar goes through this shock like a ghost, Messi weighs too little on the Parisian game and the Marseillais lack bite at eleven against ten. At the microphone of Amazon, Marquinhos is satisfied with this point despite everything. “We managed to not concede a goal, it’s important too. We left the ball to the Marseillais “, admits the captain of PSG.
The Marseillais, them, had the impression to deserve better. At least that’s the speech of Mattéo Guendouzi. “We were above them, we would have deserved the three points. We had situations, them less ”, believes the Olympian midfielder. With this draw, PSG remains an untouchable leader with seven points ahead of Lens. OM points to 4e place with 18 points while waiting to lose maybe one in the process.