Published on : 28/08/2022 – 17:48
Nice (AFP) – There was a class difference: Superior in all areas, Alexis Sanchez’s OM, author of his first two goals in Ligue 1, went to win very clearly on Sunday in Nice (3-0) to s ‘temporarily install at the top of the ranking.
The meeting at the Allianz Riviera had test value. Because OM’s start to the season was rather successful but they lacked a confrontation with a big caliber to validate it. And because that of Nice was missed but Thursday’s qualification once morest Maccabi Tel-Aviv in the Europa League Conference might have acted as a trigger.
We quickly understood on Sunday that this was not the case and Nice, very weak, very tender and which has not yet won a match this season in L1, was corrected by a team from Marseille which, clearly gaining momentum.
With ten points taken in four games, OM joined Lens at the top of the standings, pending the match of Paris SG on Sunday evening once morest Monaco. And with two matches to come once morest Clermont and Auxerre, the Provençal club can even continue to take advantage of a mild calendar to fill its mattress.
Above all, in the midst of the great role play of the transfer window, despite almost daily arrivals and departures, OM are starting to look like a coherent formation.
pressing asphyxiant
Igor Tudor was even able to manage playing time, fatigue and each other’s egos, by integrating his new defensive recruit Eric Bailly and bringing in Pape Gueye, Issa Kaboré, Cédric Bakambu or Luis Suarez, who had no had only crumbs since the start of the season.
Nice, on the other hand, is already in crisis. The promises of a good game put forward on the arrival of Lucien Favre are already an old memory and before thinking regarding looking good, the Aiglons must urgently start taking points.
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With Sanchez and Dimitri Payet, starter for the first time this season, OM had much more technical accuracy than their opponent. And with all the others, he had above all infinitely more rhythm and aggressiveness.
The Marseillais are indeed beginning to digest the precepts and the physical preparation of Tudor and their pressing, high and well coordinated, very quickly asphyxiated the OGCN.
At the end of the first period, the score was already acquired and it was Alexis Sanchez who struck first. After an exchange between Clauss and Guendouzi on a recovery ball, the Chilean managed a high-class control-strike sequence, which left no chance for Kasper Schmeichel (1-0, 10th).
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As once morest Nantes last week, the technical quality of the former Barcelona and Arsenal player has sometimes been brilliant and his way of controlling even the worst balls sent by his teammates has been a treat.
Just before the break, it was also him who closed the scoring by taking over a ball badly repelled by Schmeichel on a strike from Nuno Tavares (3-0, 42nd).
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The Portuguese had scored the 2-0 goal, his third already this season, with a nice strike from the right authorized by the complacency of the very passive Nice defense (2-0, 37th).
On the Nice side, there is not much to remember, even if Nicolas Pépé, surprise holder, showed some pretty things that leave a little hope.
A year following the serious incidents that marked the match between the two teams last season, there was also nothing serious to regret this time. Dimitri Payet was whistled, of course, but less than the Nice team at the final whistle.
The short trip was therefore quiet this time for OM but now the pace is getting crazy, with seven games in three weeks and the start of the Champions League.
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