If OM supporters must have written the script for the last eight days of their team, they might not have done differently. After defeating PSG (1-0) and brought back a great success from Strasbourg (1-2), Olympique de Marseille only made Ajax puff (4-0), this Tuesday evening, during the 2nd day of the Champions League.
Adversity was clearly not the same as during the previous day, on the field of Real Madrid, where the men of Roberto de Zerbi had not deserved (2-1 defeat). Faced with a Dutch team in reconstruction, OM had the merit of starting perfectly, by opening the scoring thanks to three recruits, on a very vertical action: opening of the excellent Nayef Aguerd, deviation of the precious Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and liberating goal for Igor Peaceao (1-0, 5th).
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The Brazilian winger, who arrived from Feyenoord this summer, had not shown much so far, whose adaptation has been disrupted by an injury. Confronting a team from Eredivisie does him good, and Peaceao has doubled the putting on a nice shot from outside the surface, after a ball recovered by another recruit, Arthur Vermeeren, author of a very good match in the middle (2-0, 12th).
Imperial OM at the Vélodrome this season
In the process, another gift from the defense of Ajax allowed Aubameyang to send Mason Greenwood to the goal (3-0, 26th). And in a second period when OM suffered much more, a flashing against “Auba” to admire its sense of goal (4-0, 52nd), while Peaceao cared for its statistics with a decisive pass.
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This very good result allows OM to hope for beautiful things about the rest of this Champions League, even if the road is still long. But more generally, with three consecutive victories, and four successes in four matches at the Vélodrome, the collective of Roberto de Zerbi seems well launched.
