(Ligue 1 2022/2023): Highlights REIMS - MARSEILLE

Alexis Sanchez and Marseille had their work cut out to regain second place in Ligue 1 Uber Eats when they face Will Still and Florian Ballergens in Forme Reims on Sunday. 10-man OM dropped points at home to Strasbourg as home is where the pain is. Just one win in six at the Orange Velodrome, yet on the road, you got Tudor's men hunting an eight straight away league win. Yet Reims' only defeat this year was in the Coupe de France, otherwise unbeaten since September. L'Equemois had the chance to win four league games in succession for the first time in precisely 47 years. No surprise, it was 16-goal Ballegens to first sting the PAM's Paul Lopez. But he wouldn't have to wait much longer to increase his goal tally to be joint second in the scoring charts. Marcio Minuzzi putting it on a plate for the Englishmen. France had lost three of the last four games against Marseille in the league. But high flying after 13 minutes, only Glenn Hoddle with 18 with Monaco in 88-89 has done better among English players in the same top flight season in the last 75 years. Ballegens firing on all cylinders. Marseille needed a response and they got it just three minutes later. The roar of the traveling OM support greeting the 11th goal of the season for the Chilean. One of three players to have scored at least two goals from a direct free kick in Ligue 1 Uber Eats this season alongside Messi and Deje Savaniye. And just shy of the hour mark, Paul Lopez delivered a second assist of his season, the first goalkeeper in Europe's top five leagues this season, as Sanchez made it 12 goals for the campaign. That's as many as he'd managed in his two previous campaigns combined at Inter in Serie A. Sanchez turning the match on its head. Ballegens cancelled out. The Chilean has now scored at least two goals in three different games, all away from home. Will Steele's Remois best 27-game tally in any Ligue 1 Uber Eats campaign this century, under threat. Ballegens this time. The creator, Munizzi, couldn't finish heading agonisingly wide off the post. Alexis Flick played his 50th Ligue 1 Uber Eats game all for Reims, but he couldn't repeat the trick of Alexis Sanchez and Paul Lopez with a fine save. Destined for the net, but the Spaniard up to the task. Tudor knew OM had slipped when leading last week, but even Reims' goal machine was now malfunctioning. The post again denying Reims. The woodwork not kind, and a first Ligue 1 Uber Eats defeat since the 18th of September, ending their longest unbeaten run ever in the top flight, 19 games. Now come to a halt as Marseille's eighth win on the road took them back to second, tightening the gap to Paris at the top to seven points.