After PSG defeat, Marseille loses again at the Velodrome

The 10th placed club in the French second league, a tiny Annecy came to the Velodrome ‘hell’ and then raised hell on its own. Annecy was losing against Marseille, then took the lead, then conceded a goal in stoppage time that sent the home team to penalty roulette, and then it did its magic and won in front of the hostile crowd. Leonardo Balerdi turned out to be the man of the match, for all the wrong reasons. In the eighth series of penalties, the ball flew over the crossbar after his shot and thus Igor Tudor's team suffered another painful blow, as they lost the league derby to Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday evening at the same place (0:3).

Marseille took the lead after almost half an hour with a goal by Jordan Veretout, and at that point, there was no hint of any tragic ending, but the visitors rose to the occasion and in just six minutes turned the game over completely, with goals from Sahi and Mouanga. Marseille pressed and got the penalty in the 85th, but he most experienced of them all, Alexis Sanchez missed it. The reward for the effort came after all, when Francois Regis Mughe, a Cameroonian from the "class of 2004" scored in the sixth minute of injury time and scheduled a penalty shootout. Momentum was on the side of Marseille, but Annecy is a real master of penalties, because in the previous two rounds of the French Cup, they eliminated Belfort and Paris FC in this way. This, however, is another dimension but they did it. Out of the remaining clubs in the competition, French giants Lyon are now favorites to lift the trophy. But, don’t count out Annecy…