A purpose of Adrien Rabiot that opened the scoring, and another from English Mason Greenwood After rejecting a penalty that had previously failed, they gave Marseille victory (0-2) against Saint-Étienne at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium.
Roberto De Zerbi’s team finished second again, with a better goal difference than Monaco and took advantage of PSG’s setback, which on Friday did not go beyond the 0-0 in its visit to Auxerre, to narrow the gap . Marseille, like Monaco, is five points behind the Parisians.
Rabiot and Greenwood, after missing the penalty, sentence
Rabiot He opened the account after quarter of an hour when he completed a combination attack that ended with a pass from Neal Maupay to his teammate who lost inside the area Gautier Larsonneur.
The second was after the hour mark, when a foul was committed inside the penalty area Leo Petrot to Greenwood This was allowed as a punishment. The English attacker killed it and Gautier Larsonneur He parried it, but the former Getafe player grabbed the rebound and sent it into the net to seal the win for the visitors and take his scoring tally in the competition to ten targetsjust one less than the Canadian from Lille Jonathan Davidfirst at the gunners table.
Red to Sampaoli
Marseille’s third straight win moves them back into second position. Meanwhile, Saint-Étienne suffered a second straight defeat and dropped to second-to-last place, in a playoff position for permanence.
Nantes moved out of the relegation zone with their 1-0 win over Rennes, whose coach, Jorge Sampaoli was sent off in added time after VAR invalidates the tying goal. Moses Simon decided in 88′
Source: La Verdad
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