• OM suffered their third straight defeat in Ligue 1, losing 1-0 to RC Lens on Saturday night at the Stade Vélodrome.

  • The Marseillais largely dominated without ever managing to score a goal.

  • But Igor Tudor and his men prefer to remember their good performance rather than their lack of efficiency.

At the Velodrome stadium,

“Football is not always fair”.

This is the lesson learned by Olympique de Marseille and its coach Igor Tudor after their defeat 1 goal to 0 on the lawn of the Vélodrome stadium, Saturday evening against RC Lens.

Indeed, the Marseillais deserved to win, but they never managed to score.



OM had however put an incredible intensity at the start of the match, and in particular defensively, by stifling the Lensois.

The middle pair, Rongier and Veretout, were excellent in impact, recovering an incredible number of balls.

Alexis Sanchez was very good in his control, his ball retention, and his orientation of the game and Pau Lopez was solid when needed.

But again, the Marseillais never managed to score.

Lack of efficiency

“We weren't efficient and that's what prevailed tonight.

They didn't have many chances, a shot from a distance was blocked, ”regrets Mattéo Guendouzi.

Indeed it only took a strike from Pereira Da Costa from outside the area, countered by Leo Balerdi before going to lodge under the bar of Pau Lopez, to offer victory to Lensois (78th).

A defeat hard to take by the Marseillais, dejected and staring into space at the final whistle.

"I'll tell you what I said to my players who I saw sad in the locker room.

They shouldn't be because we had one of our three best games of the season.

But football is not always fair, and if a team deserved victory tonight, it's ours, ”preferred to be positive Igor Tudor, as verbose in a press conference as his players were effective on the field.

“By playing like this, they will win a lot”

The Croatian coach dodged all questions about this famous offensive inefficiency, preferring to retain the content more than the result: “If we played all the matches the same way we played tonight, we would win every Sunday.

Everything we did tonight must be the starting point to win”.

An opinion shared by his midfielder, Mattéo Guendouzi, "not worried, if we had had a catastrophic match it could be for the future, but we had a good performance", and by Franck Haise, the coach of Lens: “I agree with Tudor.

By playing like that, they will win a lot.

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A great performance in the game, to be repeated in the Champions League on Wednesday, for a crucial match for qualification in the round of 16.

But with success this time.

History to quickly forget this third defeat in a row in Ligue 1, which can make the Marseillais tumble to 6th place in the event of victories for Rennes and Monaco.

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