Ligue 1 – 16th day – 6-1: OM scatters Toulouse like a puzzle

Resumption with fanfare and place on the podium for OM. The Marseillais made short work of too soft Toulouse (6-1), Thursday, during the 16th day of Ligue 1.

In a very open match, they made their attacking qualities speak for themselves and offered themselves a festival like the superb goals of Sead Kolasinac, Dimitri Payet or Nuno Tavares. Igor Tudor’s men take third place. Those of Philippe Montanier remain 13th but suffer a fourth loss in a row.

On the lawn of the Vélodrome, the Violets have clearly paid for their temerity. If they displayed real ambitions in the game during the first minutes, they did not resist Olympian furia for long. Jonathan Clauss insisted after a failed start to the counter and launched Samuel Gigot on the right for a low cross perfectly cut by Valentin Rongier from six meters (1-0, 13th). The former Nantes player scored his first goal of the season in the league and gave his people confidence.

Payet finds himself

Unleashed, very mobile and hard-hitting, the Phocaeans had a big highlight in the wake of this opener and set fire to the opposing area. Payet shot Maxime Dupé (18th), Alexis Sanchez was narrowly blocked (21st). In legs and motivated for this return as holder, the Reunionese even dared to control the chest and sombrero in midfield then lob 35 meters, without success however (32nd).

Toulouse ended up coming to their senses, however, and got two huge chances shortly before half-time with an off-target header from Farès Chaïbi from six meters (38th) then a fine save from Pau Lopez against Thijs Dallinga (44th). ). Except that in the meantime, Rasmus Nicolaisen had scored against his camp by lobbing Dupé with a clumsy header following an opening from Payet (2-0, 41st).

Kolasinac also treats

After the break, the Phocaeans started very strong but Payet missed the target on a cross from the very active Clauss (46th). Kolasinac, he allowed himself to intercept a pass from Pape Gueye towards Sanchez in the zone of truth then made a dribble with the sole and finished close in finesse (3-0, 51st). Again served by Clauss at the entrance to the opposing area, Payet showed that he had lost none of his precision with a shot sent into the left corner of a Dupé not helped by his defenders (4-0, 62nd).

Toulouse reduced the score well on a penalty obtained by the incoming Veljko Birmancevic and converted by Branco van den Boomen (4-1, 66th) and the debates became intense again but OM still showed efficiency. Just off the bench, Bamba Dieng benefited from a penalty and Cengiz Under transformed him to unlock his goal counter this season (5-1, 80th). Also coming into play, Tavares shook the visitors’ nets one last time with an overpowered shot after a service from Clauss (6-1, 82nd). This makes 3 successes in a row for OM who are back with a bang in the race for the Champions League.