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PARIS. Covid-19 established the framework. Dimitri Payet provoked the mood.
After nine long years and five red cards, Marseille broke the suite and won the wrestling match.
A classic Classique. A match to quickly love and forget.
PSG had lost their last league start on the road to Lens on Thursday, with a reserve eleven so close that it was difficult to draw any conclusions.
Today Neymar, Angel Di María, Keylor Navas and Leandro Paredes returned, the first two of the starting eleven. The Olympique de Marseille had no covid cases to declare, they went up to Paris to take advantage of a situation that would not return.
The preparations for the first French classic of the season, now popularly called “Le Classique”, were anything but normal match dates.
– A Clásico is not played in the third round, it is set in November when both teams are in better shape, Thomas Tuchel thought beforehand.
Eighteen year age limit
Covid-free is the best shape you can be this season and there Marseille pulled out a longer straw than Paris Saint-Germain. Parisians, for their part, had 5,000 fans at the Parc des Princes, and an airborne load that was far from completely healthy.
And here it is fine to say that we just saw the dirtiest sports deal of this year in Europe. This was a soccer show with a recommended age limit of eighteen. But with all the obvious objections and obvious reservations and zero tolerance for violence, it was all a bit of fun.
After 45 minutes, five yellow cards, two questionable hand situations, a possible spit, and plenty of minor fights on the field, the guests led the game somewhat surprisingly. This after Florian Thauvin hit OM’s only goal opportunity, the only real one that came during the match, possibly from an offside position.
By then PSG had started the game with ridiculously high intensity and an unnecessary goal from Marco Verratti. Marseille could barely borrow the ball. Neymar was barely upright for more than three seconds in a row. Newcomer to PSG, Alessandro Florenzi, hit the messages like he had never done anything else. Marseille veteran Hiroki Sakai called the South American rivals’ legs as if he had been ordered to be really naughty.
The location was favorable
This was the moment when Marseille would break the shameful suite against PSG, who say they have not won in twenty games, who have lost nine of the last ten. The location was favorable. Paris’s first crown wave had yet to subside, they had tired feet from the Champions League and zero preseason to lean on. Marseille, for the first time in a long time, also has its own arguments for threatening the capital. After a dubious start, André Villas-Boas has brought order to the southern road. The second place in the table last season (interrupted) was a taste, a little amuse bouche, before the second year, when you are back in the Champions League and you look really dangerous.
That PSG has completely different financial conditions and, therefore, individual talent hardly needs to be highlighted. But Marseille has its bearers of culture, the Mandanda wall in the goal and the reluctant Dimitri Payet in the forefront (in a kind of samurai man bun and more than just entrances in the stomach). Payet had mocked PSG after the final defeat in the Champions League a couple of weeks ago. Tonight it has been a little over 70 minutes before Angel Di María scores with a royal seal. By then, the match had finally and completely turned into a regular match.
And somehow, between all the pinching, bone fractures, fractures and handles, hugs, pats and kisses, Marseille managed to hold on and keep the lead intact. When the smoke has settled, we must try to find out how it happened around the world. So we must quickly forget this civil war.
It is said that last night fireworks burned in the Vieux Port of Marseille. In Paris, the freezing cold prevails despite the thirty degrees.
PSG started the season with two defeats and nobody can make me believe that they will play a role in the end. But it’s more fun that way. Let Ligue 1 continue.
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