Marseille confirmed the recovery presented by the arrival of Jean-Louis Gasset and beat bottom club Clermont 1-5 at the Gabriel Montpied stadium, whose stay in Ligue 1 is becoming more complicated every day.
The Marseille team, which hosted Villarreal at the Vélodrome on Thursday in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Europa League, added a third consecutive victory, including one in the continental tournament, and placed sixth in the European zone of the Ligue 1.
Aubameyang’s ninth goal
He opened the scoring after twenty minutes with a goal from the Senegalese Iliman Ndiaye, although at the start of the second half, bottom Clermont equalized thanks to Bilal Boutobba.
Gasset’s team pressed the accelerator, taking the lead again seven minutes later thanks to the Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. The African, Marseille’s main prop, has amassed nine goals so far this season, scoring in the 67th minute when Ismaila Sarr’s action concluded by Jonathan Clauss, who defeated the Senegalese Mory Diaw for the third time.
The room arrived ten minutes before closing, signed by Luis Henrique, and the fifth in addition, the Cameroonian work Faris Moumbagna.
Marseille started with Pau López; Quentin Merlin, Chancel Mbemba, Leonardo Balerdi, Jonathan Clauss; Azzedine Ounahi, Pape Gueye, Amine Harit, Ismaila Sarr; Iliman Ndiaye and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Cameroonian Jean Onana, Central African Geoffrey Kondogbia, Faris Moumbagna, Luis Henrique and Joaquín Correa also played.
The victory puts Marseille sixth in the table, in the European zone, four points behind Nice, fifth.
Source: La Verdad
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