Lyon Victorious, Again, at Marseilles, 4-1

I took a break from working on my report and headed over to a pub where the game was being broadcast on a large screen. When I arrived there the place was already packed and I had to settle for a place standing in the center of the restaurant, beer in hand.

It was a hardly fought game between the two arch-rivals (Marseilles is in second place and fighting to stay within reach of league leaders OL), but at one point in the second half one of the Marseilles players spiked one of the OL players and earned himself an immediate ejection. So for much of the second half the Olympique Marseilles (OM) team was playing with only ten men. And it came back to haunt them as OL scored three times on some magnificent teamwork over the last twenty minutes. Goal after goal after goal.

The defense, which had been left open in order to allow OM to attack and score, allowed some fine passes to reach the front line and the OL offense put away the goals all too clinically.

This victory puts Lyon up eight points over second-place OM and one has to hope that they can keep up this mercurial pace.