French top flight: Aubameyang lights up the Velodrome as Marseille stuns Lyon in a chaotic Olympico

A Velodrome on fire for a pressure-cooker clash

Some matches count triple.
For the table. For pride. For the season.

On Sunday, Marseille overturned Lyon (3-2) in a breathless Olympico. Twice behind, shoved about, at times disjointed, Marseille still managed to send a packed Velodrome into orbit.

And at the heart of the storm: one man — Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

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A nightmare start for Marseille

Third minute. Sloppy ball on the left. Endrick finds Corentin Tolisso, controls and fires a left-foot shot. 0-1.

A stunned silence.

Marseille try to respond. Mason Greenwood tests Dominik Greif twice. Aubameyang drops deep, looks for it, gets frustrated. Lyon stay compact. Clinical.

At half-time, Lyon lead deservedly. More realistic. Colder.

The Paixão moment

Habib Beye rips it up at the break. Timber off. Igor Paixão on.

And the game turns.

On 53 minutes, picked out by Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, Paixão cuts inside and curls a sumptuous strike into the top corner. 1-1.

The Velodrome erupts. The Olympico ignites.

But Lyon hit back. Remi Himbert restores the Gones’ lead in the 76th (1-2). Marseille looks down and out.

Aubameyang — big-match instinct

Then he appears.

In the 81st, Aubameyang draws level — opportunistic, clinical. 2-2.

You start to accept a draw.

90+1. Greenwood shifts it to Ethan Nwaneri. A whipped cross to the far post. Aubameyang appears again.

Side-foot. 3-2.

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The Velodrome goes nuclear.

A brace. His eighth league goal this season. Leading the line. The unquestioned savior.

Fonseca fumes, Beye soaks it up

Paulo Fonseca storms off furious. He rants about injustice, the refereeing, a non-existent offside on Tolisso. Lyon’s dressing room is livid.

On the other bench, Habib Beye savours his first big win in charge. Brave substitutions. Paixão decisive. Aubameyang kept on despite a long barren spell.

Choices that paid off.

A pivot in the race for the top three

With this win, Marseille move to within two points of Lyon. Momentum shifts. So does the energy.

Marseille weren’t perfect. Shaky at the back. Messy at times.

Mentally? Flawless.

And in games like this, that’s often the difference.

An electric Olympico.
A Velodrome set alight.
And Aubameyang, at 36, proving he still writes the big nights.

Photo by CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP

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