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Marseille edges Lille to end year atop Ligue 1
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OLYMPIQUE de Marseille will lead Ligue 1 into the two-week break thanks to Michy Batshuayi’s half-volleyed winner in a 2-1 home victory over Lille yesterday.
Belgian striker Batshuayi, starting after coach Marcelo Bielsa dropped Dimitri Payet following the France international’s poor training performances, scored the 69th-minute winner to put OM on 41 points from 19 games.
The goal came eight minutes after Lille’s Idrissa Gueye had cancelled out teammate Nolan Roux’s first-half own goal to level the scores at the Velodrome.
Marseille lead second-placed Paris Saint-Germain by three points after the French champions drew 0-0 at home against Montpellier on Saturday.
Third-placed Olympique Lyonnais can go second, two points adrift, if it prevails at Girondins de Bordeaux later.
Marseille imposed its possessive pattern on the game against a Lille side which is now 13th in the standings on 21 points, two points above the drop zone.
Eleven minutes from the break, Florian Thauvin’s horribly low corner kick was deflected into his own net by Roux as the hosts took a deserved lead.
Lille hit back but Marko Basa’s header from a Florent Balmont free kick was blocked by Steve Mandanda. In the 61st, Djibril Sidibe set up Gueye in the box for the midfielder to beat Mandanda with a low shot.
Batshuayi, who started as a loose forward behind Andre-Pierre Gignac, then controlled Thauvin’s cross from the left and sent a half-volley on the turn into the top corner to put OM in front again.
In Italy, Chievo Verona beat Hellas Verona 1-0 amid controversy in a Serie A city derby yesterday.
Replays showed Alberto Paloschi was offside as he headed in Ervin Zukanovic’s superb cross into the box with nine minutes remaining in the Derby della Scala.
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