MATCH REPORT | Bayeux 0-9 Marseille: Greenwood scores hat-trick in route of amateur side

There would be no surprises on Tuesday evening at Caen’s Stade Michel Ornano, as Olympique de Marseille sealed a professional 9-0 win over sixth tier side Bayeux to progress to the round of 16 of this season’s Coupe de France. Mason Greenwood scored a hatrick, Gouiri a brace, with even Neal Maupay getting on the scoresheet for Les Olympiens.

After Paris Saint-Germain were knocked out by neighbors Paris FC last night, many in the Provence region see the cup as a realistic opportunity to win a trophy this season – yet so often in the past have Marseille underperformed and underdelivered in this competition against lower league opposition. If the Bayeux Tapestry depicted the fall of once great kingdom of Anglo-Saxons to the Norman conquest, it was the Normandy based side who would be routed on home soil at Stade Michel Ornano on Tuesday evening.

Les Olympiens started with the ball, and could only conjure up a chance in the opening five minutes through Mason Greenwood’s strike that hit the post – but the Englishman was flagged offside. Bayeux were tough, and determined in the opening minutes and had a handful of half chances on the break – but OM would find the opener when Mason Greenwood was released down the left side, and the Englishman just had to play a simple pull-back for Angel Gomes to score with a first-time finish (12′). After a spell with a lack of minutes, and a future far from certain in an OM shirt, Gomes desperately needed a goal.

Only minutes later Les Phocéens grabbed their second of the evening, this time an error from Bayeux keeper Lecanu saw the ball drop to Hamad Junior Traoré who simply shifted his feet and finished past the goalkeeper to double OM’s lead. Marseille found it easy to weave their way though the Bayeux defence and managed to add a fourth through Amine Gouiri with a tap in at the far post. At the half-time interval, it looked as if Marseille were going to run away with it, as De Zerbi introduced CJ Egan-Riley and Timothy Weah for the second period.

Les Olympiens immediately got on the scoresheet as they did in the first half, as a run from Amine Gouiri past the keeper at the byline saw the Algerian calve out enough space to flash the ball across the face of goal and Mason Greenwood was on hand to tap in for his second of the evening. Gouiri then grabbed his second just minutes later after being played in-behind and finishing from close range. Egan-Riley headed in his first goal for the club, before Neal Maupay.

Bayeux pushed, but the gap in quality between the two sides was too immense to surmount – Marseille will now face Stade Rennais at the Stade Vélodrome in the Round of 16.