Amin Harit, who scored in the first half against Stade de Reims this Sunday, in the second day of Ligue 1, also brought the Vélodrome to its knees with a poignant tribute to his teammate, Faris Moumbagna, who suffered a cruciate ligament injury last week.
Under a cloud of applause. If Faris Moumbagna was indeed absent from the Vélodrome pitch, after his injury last week, his name still resonated in the Olympian corners, this Sunday during the match against Stade de Reims, as part of the second day of the championship. With a jersey bearing his name, the Cameroonian received a nice tribute from his teammate Amine Harit, who scored in the first half.
Well served by Quentin Merlin with a strong low cross at the near post, the Moroccan international calmly slipped the ball into Yehvann Diouf’s goal, before making the Vélodrome rise. At the heart of several transfer rumors, the Marseille midfielder first responded with a frank gesture mimicking incessant blah-blah with his hand. Full of compassion, he finally found at the end of the celebration his teammate’s jerseyvictim of a ruptured cruciate ligament, and shows it at both turns.
Harit, Moumbagna… same fight
Badly injured in the right knee after a contact and taken off in tears on a stretcher against Brest, when he had just come into play, during the very first day of Ligue 1, we feared the worst for the 24-year-old Cameroonian striker. And it did not fail since a medical statement from OM made official this Wednesday the total rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee and the upcoming surgical intervention.
An injury that will keep Moumbagna off the field for several months and could even signal the end of his season. A situation that is reminiscent of the blow that Amine Harit himself suffered two years ago, victim of a sprained cruciate ligament in his left knee, which at the time meant he would not play in the World Cup in Qatar.
