Jordan’s brace stuns Dede, Marseille
The battle of the Ayew Brothers in the French Ligue I clash between Olympique Marseille and Lorient at the Stade Velodrome last Friday was won by the younger sibling Jordan, as he inspired Lorient to all but scupper the title hopes of his older brother, Andre Dede.
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Jordan’s brace helped Lorient to earn an incisive away victory with a 5-3 crushing of Marseille, his former club.
Jordan scored a late winner to perhaps land the fatal blow to former club Marseille's title challenge and secure Lorient a vital win in their Ligue 1 survival battle.
The Ghanaian forward restored a lead which Lorient had twice surrendered late on before Mathias Autret made safe a 5-3 victory at the end of an exhilarating evening.
The result sees Lorient climb out of the relegation zone and up to 13th in the table and leaves Marseille eight points adrift of the summit with only four games remaining.
The younger Ayew, who also scored in December's reverse fixture against the side that he left in the summer, scored one and supplied another to put the visitors two up inside 13 minutes at the Velodrome.
He skilfully volleyed a clever layoff from Romain Philippoteaux into the bottom corner with the outside of his right foot from 25 yards, and then headed a free kick back across goal for Francois Bellugou to nod home.
Older sibling Andre briefly threatened to steal his brother's thunder when he back-heeled Marseille to within one after Dimitri Payet's deep 58th-minute free kick had evaded everybody in the area and rebounded off the post.
