A dream premiere for the Marseille in this year’s Ligue 1!
Putting in an excellent performance and being highly effective in front of the opposing goal, Marseille celebrated an impressive victory with 5-1 at its headquarters Brestideally entering the new era with Roberto De Jerbi in their technical leadership!
Marseille entered the match very strongly, which we watched live on SKAI, with Mason Greenwood to open the scoring with a perfect finish in the 3rd minute, scoring on his debut!
However, the hosts had a chance to respond 6 minutes later when the former Panaitolikos defender, Corneliustook a penalty, but o Roller made an impressive save from Del Castillo’s run, keeping his team ahead of the score. The visitors found a second goal in the 26th minute with Luis Enriquewhile o Greenwood found the back of the net again in the 32nd minute, executing a well-placed penalty taken by Arit.
Brest reduced to 45’+6′ with his terrible shot Archbut De Gerby’s team was undaunted, with Luis Enrique scoring his second personal goal at the start of the second half (48′), before Wow made the final 1-5 in the 69th minute, converting a penalty taken by Greenwood into a goal. Very unlucky for the visitors’ Mumbania, he entered the match as a substitute in the 71st minute and was seriously injured 9 minutes later.
The 1st matchday in detail:
Friday 16/8
Le Havre-Paris Saint-Germain 1-4
(48′ Joris – 3′ Lee, 85′ Dembele, 86′ Barkola, 90′ pen. Kolo Mouani)
Saturday 17/8
Brest-Marseille 1-5
(45’+6′ Kamara – 3′, 32′ pen. Greenwood, 26′, 48′ Luis Enrique, 69′ pen. Wahi)
Reims-Lille (20:00)
Monaco-Saint Etienne (22:00)
Sunday 18/8
Auxerre-Nice (16:00)
Ange-Lance (18:00, online from Monobala.gr)
Montpellier-Strasbourg
Toulouse-Nades
Rennes-Lyon (21:45)
The next (2nd) matchday:
Friday 23/8
Paris Saint-Germain-Montpellier (21:45)
Saturday 24/8
Lyon-Monaco (18:00)
Lille-Angers (20:00)
Saint-Etienne-Havri (22:00)
Sunday 25/8
Lance-Brest (16:00)
Nantes-Auxerre (18:00)
Nice-Toulouse
Strasbourg-Ren
Marseille-Reims (21:45)
Source: Sport Fm
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