Metz 0-3 Marseille
Igor Paixao 51′, Matt O’Riley 69′ and Amine Gouiri 76′.
With this 4th win in a row, Olympique de Marseille are proving that their current project is really promising, a 4-0 win against Ajax Amsterdam in UEFA Champions League, a 1-0 win against all time rival Paris. And today a satisfying 3-0 win at Metz. Nothing happened in the first half but in the second Marseille found the solutions to beat Metz’ goalkeeper jonathan Fischer. After his brace against Ajax Amsterdam, Igor Paixao reoffends today after a deflected ball. Amine Gouiri showed himself with 1 goal and 1 assist, the assist for Matt O’Riley at the 69′ minute, the Danish scored the 2-0 goal before Gouiri scoring the 3-0 goal 7 minutes later after a beautiful series of successful dribbles. Marseille are now temporarily leader of Ligue 1, Metz are last.
Brest 0-0 Nantes
In the French championship, we know that Nantes and Brest are two teams that can show intense defensive efforts, and they proved it once again as both teams were unable to score. Brest pretty much dominated the game but never found a way to score. With this 0-0 draw, Brest are temporarily 10th and Nantes 14th in Ligue 1.
Auxerre 1-2 Lens
With new coach Pierre Sage since this summer, Lens fans know that they will always battle until the end of the game, today at Auxerre, Lens players were a bit dominated statistically, with 18 shots conceded, Lens defense stayed solid, even if Ismaelo Ganiou received a second yellow card at the 73′ minute, synonym of exclusion. Odsonne Edouard opened the score for Lens at the 14′ minute with the assist from Adrien Thomasson. The frenchman scored his first goal under his new colours. Auxerre pushed until the 61′ minute when they scored the equalizer thanks to Francisco Sierralta. With only 10 men, Lens managed (once again) to take a result as Abdallah Sima scored a very very late goal (90+6′). Lens found a way to win the game and are now temporarily 4th in Ligue 1, Auxerre are 15th.