Despite the fact that no one left the Stade Orange Velodrome happy, the fair tie between Marsella Olympic and Lazio (2-2) It was a vibrant game, good football and entertaining for the spectator.
It is logical that there was no smile at the end. Not even for the French, who managed to equalize in the final stretch, and is that to win was to give an important blow on the table for the two, who are now below the Galatasaray, leader of group E with 8 points, three more than the Italians and four more than the French.
There was a time for everyone. The first, clearly for Jorge Sampaoli’s. They played in rival field, tied Lazio and did not suffer in defense. Owned byOn top of that, he put Marseille ahead, albeit with a penalty. He suffered it himself, who almost made a head mark before. Acerbi ate the threat and grabbed it to prevent it from reaching the ball. Sánchez Martínez did not see it, but the VAR did, who warned him and thus the Pole nailed it from a penalty (33 ‘).
The only offensive news of the Lazio in attack in that period came in the discount. But it was enough. Felipe Anderson He took a ball badly cleared by Saliba and defined perfectly against Pau López. This time the linesman canceled it for offside, but once again the VAR did justice by being in the correct position and the ball came from a bad clearance (45 ‘).
It was not so psychological the both of the Brazilian as if that of Immobile. Just after half-time, and in a mistake by Saliba when he did not know how to control the ball, Immobile He stood before Pau and nailed it tight to the corner (49 ‘). A bit that, in addition, was historical since Immobile became Lazio’s all-time top scorer.
He was a little knocked out the Marsella and spent his worst minutes. Even so, the French knew how to get out of the way defending in their own field and calming the nerves to go back to look for the goal of Strakosha, who in a sight in a center of Ünder was saved by the stick. In the end, at the insistence, and on a dead ball on the line, Payet He arrived before everyone to put a draw (82 ‘) which, given what was seen, was the most fair.