OM were to reassure in Baku, Azerbaijan against Qarabag this Thursday evening in the Europa League Conference play-off. Beyond the fact that Sampaoli’s men did not really succeed in convincing, the tension was maximum.
Olympique de Marseille had the opportunity to redo the icing after a very sad defeat against Clermont last Sunday (0-2). However, it was not going to be a cakewalk for the players of Sampaoli against Qarabag, in Baku, Azerbaijan, for this play-off return from the Europa League Conference (3-1 victory in Marseille).
The non-party of pleasure, first, it is especially the Marseille supporters and the French journalists who lived it. Two hours before the kick-off of this meeting, everyone was trying to enter the Tofiq-Béhramov stadium. The 155 fans were initially banned from holding their banners. After much discussion, a tough search and the fact of having shown their tarpaulins, they finally returned. Like us.
The atmosphere was already tense and given the very impressive number of police and stewards on the athletics track glued to the ground, the anxiety was mounting. It was finally on the ground that tempers flared. While OM were leading 1-0, thanks to Pape Gueye, Wadji equalized with his hand without it being reported.
Guendouzi and Alvaro mad with rage
Mattéo Guendouzi, mad with rage, ran towards his opponents to demand accountability, Álvaro González confused the linesman for his part before Pape Gueye and Steve Mandanda joined the party organized in the central circle by the former manager. Arsenal (34th).
Three minutes later, thanks to the intervention of the opposing coach, Gurban Gurbanov, the referee refused the goal (37th) and distributed yellows (Gueye and Alvaro). Everything calmed down until a new friction between Cédric Bakambu and an opposing defender (53rd). Mattéo Guendouzi, he felt nothing: ” we saw that there was a very good atmosphere. They are lucky to have a very good audience. I had already played here, three years ago with Arsenal, there is a very nice atmosphere. It’s a very nice stadium. We knew it would be difficult. We like to play this kind of match, we don’t pay too much attention to what is happening outside “. We would almost forget that there was sport this Thursday evening. Victory for OM (3-0) and qualification for the eighth of the C4.
