The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel
Match16 Sep 2026
Cup progress for Olympique de Marseille
A 1‑0 win over US Creteil, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A debut Victor Joseph will not forget — 7.40
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.40 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang yet — 8.53
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.53 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Arthur Vermeeren, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76
A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Arthur Vermeeren is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Benjamin Pavard in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Olympique de Marseille this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market21 Sep 2026
Miguel Merentiel wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 unbeaten for Olympique de Marseille
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Olympique de Marseille did not have in the autumn.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Nayef Aguerd falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Squad No hiding place for Miguel Merentiel
- Player ratings An afternoon Leonardo Balerdi will want back
- Match Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang rescues a point for Olympique de Marseille