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The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match16 Sep 2028

Still nobody has beaten Olympique de Marseille

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

Mason Greenwood runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Charlie Cresswell 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.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

One of those days for Leonardo Balerdi

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad18 Sep 2028

The manager makes an example of Jean-Luc Rolland

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

Amine Gouiri never got going

3.44 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

Match16 Sep 2028

Olympique de Marseille and Monaco take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Leonardo Balerdi is off the mark for Olympique de Marseille

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Mason Greenwood says his piece

“If we are going to be beaten, let it not be because somebody in here could not be bothered.” He stood up and said it in front of everybody, which is a thing a squad remembers about a man for years.

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The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match21 Aug 2027

Still nobody has beaten Olympique de Marseille

The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Mason Greenwood signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mason Greenwood commits to Olympique de Marseille for another 5 years.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Olympique de Marseille

Quinten Timber was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

A masterclass from Quinten Timber

Marked 9.36 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

Nobody could get near Himad Abdelli

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match21 Aug 2027

Olympique de Marseille find a way past RC Lens

RC Lens made Olympique de Marseille work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

A masterclass from Pierre-Emile Højbjerg

Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

Nothing got past Leonardo Balerdi

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Loan watch23 Aug 2027

Ange Lago counts the days

“I watch every Olympique de Marseille game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Stade Rennais runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

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