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Champion Marseille Still Struggling to Find Form
Samuel Petrequin | September 13, 2010

Marseille coach Didier Deschamps was less than pleased with his team’s 2-2 draw with Monaco. Marseille coach Didier Deschamps was less than pleased with his team’s 2-2 draw with Monaco.
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Paris. Marseille’s poor start to the season continued on Sunday as the defending champion struggled to a 2-2 draw at home to Monaco.

Marseille twice had to come from behind to avoid a third defeat in five league matches. Marseille has won only one game this season and is languishing in 13th place with five points, tied with another big club, Lyon.

Also on Sunday, goals from Eric Mouloungui and Habib Bamogo gave Nice a 2-1 win over Bordeaux as the French Riviera club maintained its unbeaten start to the season and moved up to fourth in the standings.

Monaco, which is also unbeaten, went ahead against the run of the play when Daniel Niculae scored with a left-footed strike in the 15th minute.

Marseille winger Mathieu Valbuena equalized in the 42nd minute, unleashing a thunderous drive into the top left corner.

Chu Young-park thought he had given Monaco all three points after scoring at the end of a counterattack in the 79th minute, but Monaco defender Adriano scored an own goal two minutes later while trying to clear a shot.

Nice, which has nine points from five matches, has lost only one game since coach Eric Roy replaced Didier Olle-Nicolle in March last season.

“Tonight I’m proud of my players,” Roy said. “We started this season really well but it will be difficult to last. We have to stay humble if we want to go far.”

Bordeaux is enduring a nightmarish run of form and slipped to 18th, with four points, after its third defeat of the season.

Bordeaux lost its coach Laurent Blanc — who took over as France’s new boss and was replaced by Jean Tigana — striker Marouane Chamakh and playmaker Yoann Gourcuff during the offseason.

“This is a worrying evening,” Tigana said. “We need to work hard and ask ourselves a few questions because this was a non-match.”


Associated Press