Mason Greenwood starred for Marseille as he scored twice in a 3-2 comeback win over Union Saint-Gilloise to spice up their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League knockouts.
The Belgian facet, whose personal play-off hopes took a success, claimed a shock lead earlier than Roberto De Zerbi’s crew turned issues round.
Anan Khalaili opened the scoring simply 5 minutes in with a beautiful low drive after reducing inside from the suitable to select the bottom-right nook.
Nevertheless, Marseille struck again simply 10 minutes later when Igor Paixao latched onto the rebound of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s saved shot and fired into the roof of the web.
Greenwood received the primary of his double 4 minutes earlier than the break, drilling his low effort previous Kjell Scherpen, who received a hand to the ball however couldn’t cease it from hitting the web.
Within the 58th minute, Greenwood seemingly put the sport out of sight for Marseille. He raced in behind earlier than turning his defender and bending a beautiful strike into the bottom-left nook.
Nevertheless, Union SG refused to again down, with Khalaili getting his second of the sport after latching onto a free clearance, however their battle fizzled out.
Kevin Mac Allister and Promise David each had late objectives dominated out for offside, earlier than Geronimo Rulli made a surprising save within the closing seconds to maintain out the latter’s header.
Elsewhere, Monaco moved as much as 18th within the desk after edging to a 1-0 win over Galatasaray because of Folrain Balogun’s 68th-minute penalty.
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Information Debrief: Greenwood supplies much-needed cushion
At one level, Marseille appeared to be in cruise management, however a frantic ending noticed them holding on as Union SG fought to attempt to earn a degree.
Greenwood has netted 35 objectives in all competitions throughout the final two seasons, with solely Ousmane Dembele (38) scoring extra.
And he was Marseille’s driving pressure, main the way in which with 4 photographs price 0.59 anticipated objectives (xG), with Marseille solely managing 1.48 as a crew.
