Marseille vs Le Havre 4-3

Marseille beat Le Havre 4-3 after leading 4-0 and then surviving a late rally. The home side built what looked like a decisive cushion, then had to close it out after Le Havre scored three times in the final quarter.

CJ Egan-Riley opened the scoring in the 5th minute from Emerson Palmieri’s assist, and Timothy Weah made it 2-0 on 33 minutes. Marseille went in 2-0 ahead at half-time.

Igor Paixão, from Amine Gouiri’s assist, made it 3-0 on 50 minutes, and Himad Abdelli added a fourth on 55 minutes. Le Havre changed things with two substitutions on 61 minutes, sending on Josh Maja and Sota Nakamura, then made two more changes on 77 minutes before Maja, who had come on in the 61st minute, converted a penalty on 77 minutes to make it 4-1. Marseille made two changes on 78 minutes and two more on 84 minutes, but Le Havre kept coming back, with Lamine N'Diaye scoring on 86 minutes after coming on in the 77th minute and Josh Maja making it 4-3 on 89 minutes from Kaito Mizuta’s assist. Mizuta had come on in the 84th minute. A VAR check then went against Le Havre on 90+6 minutes when Kaito Mizuta’s penalty was cancelled.

Marseille had 53% of the possession and 481 passes to Le Havre’s 411, while Le Havre had more shots, 20 to 11, and more shots on target, 7 to 5. Marseille also had 4 corners to 3, 15 fouls to 11, and 3 offsides to 1, while the xG figures were 1.63 and 3.02.

Simon Ebonog was booked for Le Havre on 83 minutes. Lamine N'Diaye was booked in the 90+11th minute, Ayumu Seko in the 90+10th minute, and Neal Maupay for Marseille in the 90+12th minute. There were no red cards.