Marseille faltered in the chase of Paris Saint-Germain at the top of Ligue 1, after a 2-0 defeat against Nice in the Allianz Riviera Sunday.
The team of Luis Enrique stood 24 hours earlier at a 1-1 draw against Reims in the Parc des Princes, which offered Marseille the chance to close their ten-point lead at the top.
However, they fell behind early when Evann Guessand, who is being recommended this month for a switch to the Premier League, placed the ball past Geronimo Rulli.
Marseille responded to that setback with Mason Greenwood, who was the first nice goalkeeper Marcin Bulka to test, after which the attempt was followed by a hit by Adrien Rabiot.
The hosts closed the opening period in force majeure, but could not find an equalizer, whereby Valentin Rongier and Quentin Merlin ended half with shots from a distance.
Despite their promising end of the first 45 minutes, Marseille was two backlogs shortly after the break when Mohamed-Ali Cho was overtaken by goal scorer Guessand.
Although the attacking introductions of Jonathan Rowe, Bilal Nadir and Robinio Vaz Marseille threatened to bring back to the competition, they did not succeed in making the desired impact.
Due to the defeat, Roberto de Zerbi's team lags ten points on PSG, followed by a big confrontation against Lyon, which also stuttered against Nantes on Sunday.
In the meantime, Mostafa Mohamed scored a leveler in the Stade de la Beaujoire in the 90th minute, giving Nantes a 1-1 draw against European pursuer Lyon.
Lyon has now noted four consecutive equal games in all competitions, a first since March and April 1996 (six), despite a ten -minute lead in the game.
Eramah completed a great attack action with a simple finish past Anthony Lopes, after being found brilliantly by the smart withdrawal of the upcoming Nicolas Tagliafico.
While Lyon was apparently on his way to an important three points, Mohamed took the equalizer late and guided Moses Simon's perfect pass home with a great header.
For the first time since May and October 2023, Lyon has won any of his last four away games in all competitions (D2 L2) (six), and remains sixth in the Ligue 1.
At the early kick-off of the Ligue 1 Brest, the surprise package of this season in the Champions League, a fourth victory in a row by beating Le Havre 1-0.
Ludovic Ajorque scored the only goal of the match and scored his fourth goal in his last five games in Ligue 1, just as much as he had scored in his previous 35 league games.
Brest has now won nine of the first nineteen games in the Ligue 1 2024-2025 and did it only in this phase last season (ten), where their attention was focused on Europe on Wednesday.
The team of Eric Roy is 13th in the Champions League list with 36 teams, but only a point away from the automatic knockout places, but compete against Real Madrid in their last league match.
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