OM: Vitinha, tenacious mystery, total symbol after the draw against Montpellier (1-1)

The spectators present at the Vélodrome this Friday will no doubt still have to wait to find answers. This Friday, without juice and without ideas, OM once again tripped over the carpet at home against a Montpellier team who can almost harbor regrets (1-1). The questions are many.

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A question, however, remains unanswered: Vitinha, what is it worth? Recruited for 32 million by Pablo Longoria last winter to get ahead of the competition in the file, the young Portuguese has been patiently waiting for his time since his first tenure in Nice in February (1-3).

Enticing scheme

This Friday, she came, with an attractive scheme, on paper: Vitinha in 9 with Sanchez and Malinovsky in support. This Friday, the mystery remains tenacious as the match of the former Braga striker was a crossing of the desert alone, or almost.

Some interesting game launches (6th), rather sharp calls in the area (52nd), technical waste, a simple but effective support game: here is the personal assessment of a number 9 weaned from balloons. Because if Vitinha did not show much, it is mainly because Marseille did not know how to put anything in his mouth.

Anger at the microphone of Prime Video, Valentin Rongier summed up after the fact the shortcomings of the Phocaeans this Friday. “We lacked physical freshness, he admitted. We lacked madness, in the last 30 meters, we were unable to make a difference. It’s up to us to bring crosses, second balls, this madness that we miss”. Centers, however, there were almost twenty. But how much exploitable, like the failed one from Clauss who could have benefited Vitinha (52nd)?

“He’s a finisher”

Under these conditions, it is difficult to ask for the moon from a distinguished striker, more accustomed to chasing in the surface than to coming to win in the heart of the game. Vitinha has neither the profile, nor the excess of energy, nor the technical finesse by Sanchez. But he has, according to his flattering reputation, this ability to hurt the goal.

Vitinha (OM) against Montpellier

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This Friday, he left the lawn with 30 balls hit and no shots on the clock… Symbolic of this sick OM (2 shots on target) rather than symptomatic of its own limits. “He played a good game and moved well, Igor Tudor defended him afterwards. There are positives, even if there is always room for improvement. The problem is that he doesn’t was not served enough. He needs to receive the balls in the area, he is a finisher”.

There remains this question, one more: what place for him at the end of the season when Marseille will need points? Holder in front of Sanchez? “We’ll try again in the next few weeks,” Tudor said unbelievably. Supersub on the end of matches? Possible. Confined to the bench, as since his arrival? It is a possibility. This Friday, nothing can answer it…

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