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00:00PSG's slip at home to Nantes last night means that Monaco can close to within four points off the leaders by winning at the Orange Vélodrome this evening.
00:12But Marseille have a big incentive of their own. Triumph tonight and they will move above AS Monaco into second.
00:19Monaco are in their change strip tonight of dark green there. Kicking from right to left in this first half. The atmosphere it goes without saying is absolutely electric.
00:38Valentin Bonger under pressure. Laurent Roivière under pressure. This is Louis-Henriques getting away from his man, finding Neil Mopay. Mopay gets the shot away, it's over.
00:52Deflection. Really good football from Marseille. An inviting pass from Louis-Henriques into Mopay's shot. Deflecting off Singo.
01:04And he nudging it forward to Mason Greenwood. Brilliant jinking run from Greenwood. Is he going to go all the way?
01:20Greenwood. We are having a substitution but it's got nothing to do with Monaco.
01:29Can he repeat the trick here? Roivière over the wall and over the bar.
01:40Mopay. Roivière. Oh Roivière's pass isn't a good one. Valigan. Ben Segeer. And now Zakaria. Zakaria to Golovic. Monaco have scored.
02:01It's a clinically taken counter-attack goal following a bad mistake from Valentin Rongier here at the Velodrome.
02:14A horrible moment there for Rongier. But then Monaco did so well. Valigan, Ben Segeer, Zakaria. And then the cool finish from Golovin beating Rulli at his near post.
02:27Marseille 0, Monaco 1. Aided by that deflection off Murillo.
02:44Murillo to Luis Henrique. Crossing far post. Oh it's a good cross as well and Garcia got up high. Couldn't control the header.
02:57Referee blows the half-time whistle.
03:07And the first 45 minutes are gone. Golovin scored the only goal in the first half and Monaco is winning 1-0 against Olympique Marseille in the Velodrome.
03:21So 45 minutes for Marseille to try to do something about this. They trail Monaco by one goal to nil. They are in danger of slumping to another home defeat.
03:35It would be three home losses in a row. Alexander Golovin's strike on 41 minutes as Monaco took advantage of a Marseille slip.
03:51It's a story we've heard too often from Marseille's point of view in recent weeks but they've got time to react here and they need to react.
04:06Helped on by Mopet. This is Adrian Rabiot. Garcia. Garcia's cross is deflected. Oh and a mistake from Monaco has gifted Marseille a leveller.
04:22Luis Henrique had the simple task of nodding it over the line.
04:30Luis Henrique with his sixth league goal this season. Perhaps the easiest one. Garcia's cross was deflected. Salisu didn't deal with it.
04:45He's just nodded it back into the danger zone. Mopet with the quick reactions to head it to Luis Henrique and he said thank you very much.
04:56We saw Jorge Sampaoli at the weekend. Let's have a look at this. Great chance for Balogun. Saved by ruling.
05:10Balogun's touch to Denis Zakaria. Zakaria almost going all the way here. It's a good save.
05:18Good challenge from Balogun. Possibilities here for Marseille. Good save by Jeki.
05:32Created the opening beautifully Greenwood.
05:35Minamino. Gonovin. Shot on for Alexander Gonovin. Saved by Rulli. Monaco players looking to pounce.
05:55He can't get forward though because he's miscontrolled it. Makassa. This is Watara. Now Minamino in the clear. Minamino into the side netting.
06:16Koeman. They had three players in the box here. Once again a Marseille.
06:27Now the flag has stayed down. Minamino in the clear against Rulli. Rulli makes the save and the flag goes up. Did look offside Takumi Minamino.
06:37No if they're offside. Of course he's Greenwood. Granger. It's a good pass. Murillo. Murillo's cross. Appears for a handball here. Referee has given a corner.
07:08The penalty has been given.
07:18Greenwood perhaps to win it for Marseille. He steps up and he buries it. Mason Greenwood's popularity here in Marseille continues to soar.
07:32The Englishman makes no mistake from the penalty spot and Marseille have it.
07:39Well the former Manchester United attacker was so cool he had to wait a long time before stepping up. But he never looked like missing.
07:54Puts it into touch. Marseille going to make a substitution. There it is. Marseille have turned this game from a nightmare to a superb victory.
08:21It looked like they were facing more home heartache.
08:28What a victory. What a victory for Olympique Marseille. They started this game losing it but they found a way to turn around this situation and win this match and we have a new second best team in the league.
08:50.