Olympique de Marseille and AS Monaco were two evenly matched teams, in the French derby of Ligue 1, matchday 4.
Perhaps Marseille was the slight favourite, considering the fact that its players had more experience in the first division.
But the win was obtained courtesy of a deeper squad depth by Monaco.
One might not think that a newly-promoted team would have a better overall squad than a team that least season qualified directly for Champions League group stage, but in France such a thing is possible!
Super-sub Emmanuel Riviere replaced injured Falcao, and scored the winner ten minutes before the end.
Claudio Ranieri's team thus shocks the country again.
It is the newcomer team, not the experienced one, coming from behind to win the derby, and away from home!
For Marseille, though, such embarrassing defeats at home are not as unusual as they might be for other CL participants. Or for teams at the very top of Ligue 1.
Just last year, they were losing, 1-4, to Lyon, in a similar early-ish derby. (That one was at the end of November, but still...)
Come to think of it, Marseille was better now, under critical pressure. But not by much.
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