• Olympique de Marseille won 4 goals to 1 on Tuesday evening against Sporting Portugal during the 3rd day of the group stages of the Champions League.

  • OM were however picked up cold by the Portuguese, who opened the scoring in the 50th second.

  • But Igor Tudor's men showed character to revive, helped by the blunders of Antonio Adan, the Sporting goalkeeper.

At the Velodrome stadium,

Incredible turnaround for OM on Tuesday night at home against Sporting Portugal.

Led from the 50th second, the Marseillais showed character to completely reverse a badly embarked match and finally win 4 goals to 1. Igor Tudor's men are completely relaunching in this Champions League.

The Portuguese late at the stadium, the Marseillais on the lawn

It took more than 15 minutes for the match to start, but only 50 seconds to see Sporting score the first goal of the match.

If the Lisboètes arrived late at the Vélodrome stadium because of traffic jams, they did not drag to score, since Francisco Trincao deceived Pau Lopez with a curled left before the first minute was up.

He can thank Balerdi and Veretout, who seemed to still be stuck in traffic.

The Portuguese could have killed the game a few minutes later, but Pau Lopez saved OM from another disgrace in the Champions League.

Adan, the 12th man from Marseille

In the absence of supporters, because of the closed session pronounced by UEFA, it was ultimately the Sporting goalkeeper who filled the role of 12th.

And we're not even exaggerating.

First by taking all his time to clear a ball, so that the restless Alexis Sanchez can calmly counter the ball to the back of the net (13th).

Nothing better to revive the Marseillais.

And what about this hand out of his box, when he was overtaken by Nuno Tavares after a long clearance from Pau Lopez?

Direct red.

The good choices of Igor Tudor

Unlike the defeat against Frankfurt (0-1), the OM coach was inspired in his choices against Sporting.

First, by aligning Mattéo Guendouzi in a two-man environment: the number 6 of OM really excelled in this role by always being well placed in recovery, as on the second Marseille goal scored by Harit (16th).

The Moroccan, established in support of Alexis Sanchez in place of Dimitri Payet, was also very good.

He sounded the charge for his team, with the Chilean, before offering the 3rd goal, to give himself some air, to Léo Balerdi, on a corner (27th).

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