The former Manchester United<\/a> forward settled a tight encounter when he netted his 14th goal of the season — his 11th in Ligue 1 — with eight minutes remaining at the Stade Velodrome.<\/p>\n It came just moments after Folarin Balogun<\/a> thought he had given Monaco the lead, but his effort was ruled out by VAR for offside.<\/p>\n Greenwood buried a first time shot from just inside the area after being slipped in by Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg.<\/p>\n He was booked for taking his shirt off in the celebrations that followed, but Marseille held on for a result that kept them within five points of leaders Lens<\/a>.<\/p>\n Marseille may feel victory was deserved on the balance of play, but Monaco matched them when it came to opportunities.<\/p>\n Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang<\/a> and Timothy Weah<\/a> forced early saves from Monaco goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky<\/a>, but Aleksandr Golovin<\/a> and Takumi Minamino<\/a> had chances at the other end.<\/p>\n Greenwood twice missed the target and Minamino had further efforts for Monaco before Igor Paix\u00e3o<\/a> drew a save from Hradecky.<\/p>\n Hradecky then saved twice from Greenwood and it seemed Marseille would pay the price as Balogun found the net 10 minutes from time but the goal was chalked off.<\/p>\n Greenwood, who scored two against Union Saint-Gilloise in the Champions League on Tuesday, made no mistake with his next opportunity as he fired Marseille into a late lead.<\/p>\n George Ilenikhena<\/a> had a chance to level in the last minute for Monaco but could not beat Ger\u00f3nimo Rulli<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 14, 2025, 06:00 PM ET Mason Greenwood scored a late winner as Marseille regained third place in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-349221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mason Greenwood celebrates after scoring a goal for Marseille against Monaco.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n