Last night, OM won a place in the final of the French version of the FA Cup, beating Sochaux to set up a date at the Stade de France with PSG.
Whisper it but Sochaux are 15th in France’s second tier. So this is hardly, as one website put, France’s answer to the Barca-Real (or, we might fancifully add, Wear Tyne) classico.
But it would have been just a couple of seasons ago. Nowadays, PSG are in a Qatari-funded Ligue 1+ of their own, everyone else follows and OM are a long way behind. They haven’t won in the league at home since September.
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Passi got his new manager bounce. Steven Fletcher, on loan to Marseille from Sunderland and surely missing sunny Seaburn even when not dodging drug gangsters’ bullets, provided the assist. From his well flighted pass, Florian Thauvin advanced on the right to fire home.
It looks routine in the clip above, but let us be honest and say Fletch got his pass absolutely right.
I am not his greatest admirer but hope he gets a game in the final even if a loser’s medal is the likely outcome.