OM fall back into their ways. The Marseillais lost on the lawn of Eintracht Frankfurt for their fifth group match in the Champions League (2-1), Wednesday, October 26. Weighed down by their defensive errors, quickly led to the score, Igor Tudor’s men failed to capitalize on their highlights to overthrow the Germans.
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End of the game.
Our bow in Frankfurt, the outcome of the will be played on 01/11 at the@orangevelodrome.
See you on Saturday in Strasbourg for the th day of @Ligue1UberEats. pic.twitter.com/wZ6EWteL5d– Olympique de Marseille (@OM_Officiel) October 26, 2022
It is a feeling of frustration and disappointment that is likely to emerge from this meeting in the Marseille camp. Not dominated in the game, authors of several highlights especially in the second half, the Marseillais nevertheless left Frankfurt with a third European defeat this season. They will long regret their disastrous start to the match, with an opener conceded in the third minute, and their defensive limits which paved the way for the Eintracht players. After two successful outings against Sporting, OM fell back to earth.
On the lawn of Deutsche Bank Park, the Marseillais complicated the task on their own. They didn’t even have time to get into their match when they let Evan Ndicka cross for the opener from Daichi Kamada (3rd), against a late Olympian defense. The OM rearguard also lacked aggression on Randal Kolo Muani’s second goal, after a nice one-two with Mario Götze (27th), while Matteo Guendouzi had just snatched the equalizer for the his own (22nd).
Igor Tudor’s men were guilty of individual errors which are costly at this level of competition. Late on one of his first interventions, Jonathan Clauss was off-time at the start of the action of the first German goal, while Chancel Mbemba badly countered the ball in his area on the achievement of Kolo Muani. The addition could have been even heavier after the blunder of Leonardo Balerdi, author of a dangerous back pass in the axis just in front of the German offensive pair (19th).
However, Wednesday evening, the Marseillais did not come across a much superior opponent. They also attacked Kevin Trapp’s goal and created several chances (12 shots, more than the 9 Germans). From the tenth minute, the full-backs were able to find spaces in the opposing defense, but Clauss crushed his shot too much. Well found by Nuno Tavares, Alexis Sanchez saw his attempt released by the tip of the foot of Hrvoje Smolcic (15th).
Above all, the Olympians lacked efficiency, with only three shots on target, including Guendouzi’s goal. “We have a little lack of realism in front of goal, we manage to get the chances but we can’t put them in the back”, recognized Amine Harit at the microphone of Canal + after the meeting. Nuno Tavares (77th) and Cengiz Ünder twice (82nd) both missed the target late in the game, in a final Marseille highlight.
Group D
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With this poor result, they were overtaken by their evening opponents and slipped to last place in their group. But they retain all their chances of qualifying for the round of 16, in the event of victory on the last day against Tottenham at the Vélodrome, in a group D where nothing is yet decided.