{"id":417489,"date":"2026-01-18T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/417489\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:21:07","slug":"angers-2-5-marseille-jan-17-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/417489\/","title":{"rendered":"Angers 2-5 Marseille (Jan 17, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mason Greenwood<\/a> continued his hot scoring streak as\u00a0Marseille<\/a> kept up the pressure at the top of Ligue 1<\/a> with a thumping 5-2 win over Angers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Greenwood’s goal was his ninth in his last seven appearances and followed up his hat trick in Marseille’s 9-0 win<\/a> over Bayeux in the Coupe de France last time out.<\/p>\n

Amine Gouiri<\/a> gave the visitors the perfect start on Saturday when he tucked away Amir Murillo’s cross in the 19th minute.<\/p>\n

Five minutes later former Manchester United forward Greenwood drilled in the second from the edge of the penalty area.<\/p>\n

\"MasonMason Greenwood (L) celebrates with Timothy Weah after scoring in Marseille’s win over Angers.<\/p>\n

JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Hamed Traor\u00e9<\/a> then latched on to Emerson Palmieri’s through-ball to slot in the third.<\/p>\n

Traore turned creator with the cross for United States<\/a> international\u00a0Timothy Weah<\/a> to head home number four, before Amine Sba\u00ef<\/a> pulled one back in first-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n

Greenwood was close to doubling his tally when his shot crashed back off the crossbar.<\/p>\n

Igor Paix\u00e3o<\/a> scored Marseille’s fifth with two minutes remaining before Jim Allevinah<\/a> grabbed a second for Angers in stoppage time.<\/p>\n

Third-placed Marseille remain eight points behind leaders Lens<\/a> and seven adrift of Paris St Germain in second.<\/p>\n

PA contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason Greenwood continued his hot scoring streak as\u00a0Marseille kept up the pressure at the top of Ligue 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-417489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}