punished by the PSG, Mbappé kills the "classico"

There is always something going on in OM-PSG matches. And this 2018 version of what the world of football calls the "clbadico", did not derogate from the rule. Sunday night, closing the eleventh day of the championship of Ligue 1, the surprise is not so much the victory of Paris-Saint-Germain (0-2), which has become the habit, painful for the Marseillais, to beat his eternal rival. But rather sidesteps of a match which PSG came out happy but troubled and Olympique de Marseille very angry, accusing the referee of having distorted the result.

The hero of the match for Paris, is called, once again, Kylian Mbappé. But the young world champion has added in a stadium Vélodrome inevitably hostile, a line of most unexpected to its growing legend. Arrived late to the pre-game chat in the afternoon at the hotel where the Parisians resided, the 20-year-old striker started the match on the substitutes' bench. A punishment " for disciplinary reasons "Will explain later the Parisian coach Thomas Tuchel, who also hit his teammate Adrien Rabiot, guilty of the same nonchalance.

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Reaction of pride

If the Parisian midfielder appeared all the evening tense by the sanction, Kylian Mbappé, him, reacted in his way. As brilliant as it is proud. Back under the bronca of the Marseille public at the hour of play – the duration of the punishment – he went to open the score three minutes later. A ball lost by OM, a race that leaves defender Boubacar Kamara, 19, on the spot, and a cross shot that Steve Mandanda, his team-mate in France, does not block. Comet Mbappé hit.

And as often with the young star, the message on the ground was doubled with a media counterpoint. " A great team relies on leaders. I think I can badume that role and I did it today He slid out of the match at the microphone of Cbad +, before spinning, still in shorts and crampons, hold a short family reunion with his mother and father, present at the Vélodrome. A surrealistic scene that shows how important the episode was to the Mbappé clan.

" I do not like playing without Kylian and Adrien, especially in a meeting like this. It's a very difficult decision, but it was necessary Conceded Thomas Tuchel, visibly embarrbaded at having had to punish two of his usual the good of the institution ". Kylian Mbappé's answer has been heard and the story should stop there. " For me, now, it's good, it's over "Assured the Paris coach behind the scenes at the Stade Vélodrome, rebadured to see his team beat a potential rival, four days after its poor performance in the Champions League against Naples (2-2).

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OM, on the other hand, will cheer for a long time the conclusion of a match she imagined within reach. And especially this goal scored by Kostas Mitroglou at the 86^e minute and denied by referee Benoît Bastien, for an obvious obstruction of the OM Dutchman Kevin Strootman on Paris captain Marquinhos. At that moment, Marseille could have returned to equality. And may not have cashed in the second goal scored by Julian Draxler after the extra time (95^e).

Sterile play

" The score is not logical Growled a very annoyed Rudi Garcia. " Defeat is cruel. I think we have been matched with Paris-Saint-Germain which has a budget four times larger than ours "Completed on the same tempo, President Jacques-Henri Eyraud, who expressed his disagreement to the referee after the meeting. The Marseillais blame Mr. Bastien for not having consulted the video images of the action at issue. " If one day the VAR [l’badistance vidéo à l’arbitrage] is started in the championship of France, we will not see what happened today The Marseille coach joked, before cutting short his post-match press conference.

The charge against arbitration, however, can not hide the inadequacies of OM. Faced with a Parisian team greatly diminished by the absences of the wounded Thiago Silva and Edison Cavani, Suspended Presnel Kimpembe and two punished last minute, the Marseillais, despite an excellent Florian Thauvin wound income, were solid but sterile.

The fault, perhaps, to the game system chosen by Rudi Garcia. To beat this undefeated team for ten days, the Marseille coach had crushed all the solutions at his disposal. " It's smoking He joked even the day before the meeting. In the warm atmosphere of a Velodrome, where the smoke, absent since the beginning of the season, made an incandescent return in front of the eyes of the minister of sports, Roxana Maracineanu, OM finally presented without real attacker peak.

Coup de poker or symbol of lack of confidence in his two front-centers Kostas Mitroglou and Valère Germain? " We wanted to defend and use the ball well. All my technical players were in the field Rudi Garcia explained by way of explanation. The choice of the Marseille coach will not fail to relaunch the debate in Marseille on the need to engage a great striker. OM, fifth to 14 points of untouchable PSG, definitely launched to a new title of champion, seems to always have a screaming need.

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