After having paced the whole game in his technical area on the lawn of the Velodrome stadium, Jorge Sampaoli will finally be able to ask himself and wonder what went wrong this Saturday, December 4. Michel Der Zakarian, a few meters away, was able to celebrate the perfect shot made by his team. While Olympique de Marseille perfectly mastered their match against Brest and led by a goal at half-time, the Phocéens ended up losing to the stunning Bretons, who won a sixth consecutive success in Ligue 1 ( 1-2).
The turning point in this meeting, the Argentinian coach of OM will not take long to identify it: this hand from Boubacar Kamara on his return from the locker room, on a harmless volley from Hugo Magnetti in the Marseille penalty area. Romain Faivre, technical leader of Brest, equalized from the penalty spot and totally revived his team and his teammates in this meeting (53rd).
Because before that, Brest had not existed and spent the first period in apnea. With 25% possession of the ball, the Bretons ended up cracking at the half-hour mark on the goal of the Brazilian Gerson following a good stint with Dimitri Payet (29th). But at the moment, Brest is marching on Ligue 1. By winning against Saint-Étienne on Wednesday (1-0), Michel Der Zakarian’s players had set a record for the club, with five straight wins in the league. .
The Bretons improved it today, thanks to the splendid goal of Franck Honorat (70th), who came to silence the 55,000 Marseille supporters present at the Stade Vélodrome on Saturday. The Marseillais never managed to come back despite the huge opportunity missed by Gerson (77th) and the end of the match spent pushing in front of opposing goals.
5 – Brest is the 5th team to find the fault in each of its first 17 matches of a Ligue 1 season in the 21st century, after Monaco in 2003/04, Lyon in 2005/06, Marseille in 2017/18 and Paris in 2018/19. Thunder ⚡️. @ SB29 # OMSB29 pic.twitter.com/kECmp1Qk9D
– OptaJean (@OptaJean) December 4, 2021
With this success, Brest put an end to a series of five consecutive defeats against OM and above all put an end to Marseille’s invincibility in Ligue 1. OM had not lost in the league since last October 3 and a match of the 9th day in Lille (0-2), and his place as runner-up to Paris Saint-Germain is in danger, because Stade Rennes could overtake him tomorrow.
Brest, for its part, confirms its excellent form, like its trainer. Der Zakarian, in great difficulty at the start of the season when adapting to a new club and a new environment, seems to have found the recipe, with a playful team capable of hanging on to Lille (1-1), to beat Monaco (2-0), Lens (4-0) and therefore Marseille in its last seven games.
While the club’s objective is to ensure its maintenance at the end of the season, Brest has jumped five places in the standings with this success and temporarily occupies 6th place in Ligue 1, before the other meetings of the weekend. Another master stroke made by the Bretons.