Olympique de Marseille settles in second place (2-0)

The fourth consecutive victory, achieved against the Montpellier (2-0), settled the Olympic Marsella in second place in Ligue 1 in France only behind Paris Saint Germain, from which they are separated by twelve points.

The group of the Argentine Jorge Sampaoli resists the push of the Stade Rennes that has remained as its main opposition for the runner-up. Nice and Strasbourg were unable to win and left the matter, for now, one-on-one.

Second place qualifies directly for the Champions League. And that is what Marseille aspires to, who beat a rival at the Velodrome in low hours and lowered their arms shortly after the quarter of an hour, when the local advantage was already two goals.

Sampaoli’s team, who opted for Steve Mandanda in goal to the detriment of Spaniard Pau López, who started in recent days, opened the scoring after eight minutes after a great individual action by Amine Harit who assisted Bamba Dieng to push, at an empty goal, the ball into the net.

The second was in minute 17, when a foul inside the area by Jordan Ferri on Bamba Dieng was sanctioned with a penalty that the Turk converted. Cengiz Under.

Sampaoli, with the game sentenced against a rival with ten due to the expulsion of Jonas Omlin, measured efforts and saved energy for Thursday’s European commitment in the Conference League with the match against PAOK Thessaloniki.