‘I was down some days but I had to look at the bigger picture’ – Jonathan Rowe on a difficult adaption to life at Marseille | OneFootball

After a difficult period struggling to find consistency in the Marseille starting line-up, English winger Jonathan Rowe (21) was finally back to goalscoring action in OM’s 5-1 win over Montpellier. Rowe scored Les Olympiens’ fourth goal of the evening at the Vélodrome, latching onto Ulisses Garcia’s well-timed ball to the near post and pulling off a flamboyant flick past Lecomte in the 73rd minute. In 24 matches it would be Rowe’s third goal of the current Ligue 1 campaign. Speaking in the mixed to Get French Football News following the game, Rowe spoke about a challenging period of adaption to life at Marseille. “It’s been difficult for me personally, this whole season it’s been a big change coming from Norwich where I was a key player in the team and coming here it was a big challenge with the expectation to perform.”“I’ve embraced it, but it’s been difficult. I wasn’t in the starting XI a lot of times and it affected me a bit. I think everyone could see that, but I carried on – and that was that main thing.”“Even though I was down some days and I had to look at the bigger picture which is that collectively as a team we have a goal, an objective (the Champions League) and I have to do as much as I can to help that.”Marseille moved back up to second in Ligue 1 after their win over Montpellier and a draw between Monaco and Strasbourg earlier in the day (0-0 ). Les Phocéens therefore go into the last four games of the season one point ahead of Monaco on 54 points, with a potential 3-point gap to Lyon depending on Les Gones’ result against Saint-Étienne in a derby clash on Sunday evening. GFFN | George Boxall – Reporting from the Stade Vélodrome, Marseille.