Overview
- Marseille led through Igor Paixão before Sporting overturned the deficit to win 2-1 on Champions League matchday three.
- Referee Rade Obrenovic initially awarded OM a penalty in first-half stoppage time, then rescinded it after review and showed Emerson a second yellow for simulation.
- Emerson had been booked minutes earlier for handball, leaving Marseille to play the entire second half with ten men.
- Sporting equalised through substitute Geny Catamo on 69 minutes and won it with fellow substitute Alisson Santos in the 86th.
- A later VAR check downgraded an on-field red card to a yellow for Sporting’s Maxi Araujo, and the result moved Sporting above Marseille in the group as OM figures publicly criticised the officiating.