Steve Mandanda, the best Olympian against Lille, kept his team from sinking.

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Daniel Cole / AP / SIPA

  • OM and LOSC drew 1-1 on Sunday evening at the Stade Vélodrome at the end of the fourth day of Ligue 1.

  • The Marseillais can consider themselves very lucky, they were bad throughout the game and can thank Steve Mandanda and Valère Germain for this unexpected point.

  • Lille were solid but lacked realism to kill the match, Jonathan David was nonexistent.

At the Velodrome stadium,

If there are draws who have the taste of victory, it would almost have that of defeat for Losc.

Largely domineering in Marseille, the Lille wandered around the entire match before letting a non-existent OM equalize at the end of the match.

Cruel for the men of Galtier, miraculous for those of Villas-Boas.

Mandanda and Germain, the saviors.

The Olympian goalkeeper was the only player on his team at Sunday night.

Solid in the first half, Steve Mandanda especially allowed OM not to sink in the second half.

He made a magnificent parade just after the Lille opener, and saw himself happy with Araujo's free kick which hit the bar.

He won his duel between the goalkeepers of the France team against Mike Maignan, who did not have much to do, but still conceded a header from Valère Germain.

Thauvin's lining miraculously saved the Marseillais at the end of the match by coming to put his head, his specialty.

It allows the Olympians to draw more than lucky.

Nothingness among the Marseillais.

The Olympians players still completely missed out on their game on Sunday night, after losing to Saint-Etienne on Thursday.

The Marseillais did not offer anything, the environment was nonexistent with a Boubacar Kamara next to his pumps.

Dimitri Payet never returned to his match, and was even clumsy in his passes.

Starting for the first time, Nagatomo was not at all in the rhythm, and it is not surprising that the first goal Lille comes from his side.

Back at the forefront of the attack, Dario Benedetto did not weigh despite a few rare deviations.

Another match where the need for offensive reinforcement is crying for André Villas Boas ... To believe that the Marseillais have still not returned from Paris.

Serious Lille contenders for the podium.

The Losc players had a solid match against direct opponents for the podium.

If the start of the match was sluggish, with poor offensive choices, they came back perfectly in the second half, largely dominating OM until the head of Germain.

Big regret: all these missed opportunities to kill the match.

Physically solid, the Turkish Yilmaz is well on the Olympian defense but his strike on the post after Araujo's opener would have allowed his team not to be caught.

Pity.

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