time goal by Brazilian Brandao earned Olympique Marseille a third successive French League Cup trophy with a 1-0 victory over Olympique Lyon in a drab final Saturday. Brandao, an extra-time substitute at the Stade de France, scored in the 105th minute with an angled shot from a cross by Benoit Cheyrou to secure his team a berth in next season's Europa League playoffs. The result ended Marseille's sequence of 12 matches in all competitions without a win, 11 of them defeats. Lyon will have another chance to lift some silverware when it meets third division Quevilly in the French Cup final later this month. “This is immense joy. I want to thank the players and all those at the club who worked hard for this,” Marseille coach Didier Deschamps told the France 2 TV channel. Gladbach blanks Cologne Borussia Moenchengladbach outclassed Cologne to win the Rhine derby 3-0 and leave the visitors mired in the Bundesliga's relegation zone Sunday. The return of Frank Schaefer as interim coach in place of Stale Solbakken, who was sacked Thursday, failed to prevent Cologne slumping to its 18th defeat of the season. Juan Arango fired Borussia ahead with a precise free kick in the 19th minute, Tony Jantschke made it 2-0 in the 53rd and Marco Reus completed the scoring two minutes later. Moenchengladbach moved to within a point of third-place Schalke in the automatic Champions League spot. Moenchengladbach's next game is at Borussia Dortmund, which will have clinched the title if Bayern Munich fails to beat Werder Bremen in its earlier game next Saturday. Cologne is four points from safety in the playoff place, one ahead of Hertha Berlin with three rounds remaining.
