Marseille hit back from a goal down to score twice in two minutes for a 2-1 win at Lille on Sunday which kept Andre Villas-Boas' side comfortably on course for the Champions League.
The victory gave second-placed Marseille an 11-point lead over Rennes in third spot in French Ligue 1 where champions Paris Saint-Germain still lead the way with a 10-point cushion.
Lille stay fourth but are 12 points behind Marseille in the race for the two automatic qualifying places for next season's Champions League.
"We didn't do much in the first half, but in the second we had a lot of intensity and showed aggressiveness," said Villas-Boas.
"We had 70 minutes of defence and 20 minutes of attack." He added: "We talked at half-time about what we would do if we got a goal. We played a decent match."
"We didn't create enough goal-scoring opportunities and we didn't shoot enough at goal. We didn't do enough as the home side."
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