{"id":24026,"date":"2025-10-19T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=24026"},"modified":"2025-10-19T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:04:11","slug":"greenwood-quadruple-sends-marseille-top-of-ligue-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=24026","title":{"rendered":"Greenwood quadruple sends Marseille top of Ligue 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mason Greenwood scored four goals as Marseille came from behind to hammer Le Havre 6-2 and storm to the top of the Ligue 1 table, while Nice downed Lyon in a clinical display of finishing.<\/p>\n

Reigning champions and league leaders going into the weekend’s action, Paris Saint-Germain drew 3-3 at home to third-placed Strasbourg on Friday, offering the possibility to rivals Marseille and Lyon to take top spot.<\/p>\n

Marseille emphatically took that chance thanks to Greenwood and now sit on 18 points, one ahead of PSG.<\/p>\n

Yassine Kechta gave 15th-placed Le Havre a shock lead at the Velodrome on 24 minutes.<\/p>\n

But the match swung firmly in the hosts’ favour just after the half-hour mark as a penalty was awarded against Le Havre’s Gautier Lloris for handball, with the defender also being sent off after a VAR review upped his punishment from a yellow to a red card.<\/p>\n

Greenwood dispatched the resulting spot-kick in the 35th minute to level matters.<\/p>\n

The 10 men frustrated Marseille until seven minutes after the hour when Greenwood fired them into the lead with a rifled finish from the right of the box.<\/p>\n

That strike opened the floodgates.<\/p>\n

The English winger grabbed his hat-trick on 72 minutes with a cute finish, before netting his fourth four minutes later as he swept a cut-back past helpless goalkeeper Mory Diaw with his right foot.<\/p>\n

Robinio Vaz made it five for Marseille with two minutes remaining before Le Havre’s Abdoulaye Toure got the pick of the bunch with a thunderous volley that flew into the top corner in the 92nd minute.<\/p>\n

Amir Murillo netted one minute later to ensure Marseille’s move to the top of the table ended on a high.<\/p>\n

‘Guile’ needed\u00a0<\/p>\n

Victory for Paulo Fonseca’s Lyon would have seen them take top spot earlier on Saturday but instead a frustrating 3-2 loss at Nice condemned them to remain fourth on 15 points.<\/p>\n

Lyon assistant coach Jorge Maciel said after the defeat that the side needs “maturity and guile at key moments (in matches)”.<\/p>\n

“If we have to score four goals to win in Ligue 1, it’s going to be difficult,” the Portuguese added.<\/p>\n

Melvin Bard gave eighth-placed Nice the lead with five minutes on the clock as he fired a fine first-time finish past Dominik Greif after racing onto Sofiane Diop’s inviting ball across the box from the right flank.<\/p>\n

The away side levelled just shy of the half-hour when Pavel Sulc nodded in a flick-on from a corner.<\/p>\n

Diop restored the hosts’ lead in the 35th minute with what was just their second shot on target of the match.<\/p>\n

The danger again came from the right-hand side as a flighted ball was headed back across the six-yard box by Mohamed-Ali Cho and the Moroccan tucked home from a tight angle.<\/p>\n

Lyon were awarded a spot-kick shortly after half-time but former Arsenal man Ainsley Maitland-Niles failed to beat goalkeeper Yehvann Diouf from 12 yards as Nice were let off.<\/p>\n

The home side immediately took advantage of the reprieve as midfielder Hicham Boudaoui finished a breakaway with an unerring strike that curved away from Greif and into the Slovakian’s far corner on 55 minutes.<\/p>\n

Sulc headed in his second of the match for Lyon five minutes into added time, but Nice held firm to see out the three points.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on Saturday, fifth-placed Monaco sit one point behind Lyon after being held to a 1-1 draw at second-last Angers.<\/p>\n

United States forward Folarin Balogun put the principality side in the lead on 72 minutes.<\/p>\n

But Sidiki Cherif hit back with five minutes remaining to earn a valuable point for the strugglers.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mason Greenwood scored four goals as Marseille came from behind to hammer Le Havre 6-2 and storm to the top of the Ligue 1 table, while Nice downed Lyon in a clinical display of finishing. Reigning champions and league leaders going into the weekend’s action, Paris Saint-Germain drew 3-3 at home to third-placed Strasbourg on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}