Just three days after their cold shower in the Champions League with an elimination by Panathinaikos in the third preliminary round, OM were forced to share points in Metz this Friday, at the start of the second day of Ligue 1.
The Marseille club, already not spared in its double confrontation against the Greek club, again experienced bad luck in this meeting, between repeated posts, Kondogbia’s injury, opposing goal on a deflected shot.
” I’ve been doing this job for quite a few years now and I’ve rarely experienced such a thing, deplores the Marseille coach at a press conference. In the space of three days, in two games… it’s hard to explain. We won one but it wasn’t enough (for qualifying), but today’s… it’s unbelievable to me that we didn’t get the three points. You can have bad luck one day, but to find yourself in similar circumstances three days later… It’s difficult. »
“You may have bad luck one day, but find yourself in similar circumstances three days later…”
How to go up the slope and inspire the players after such bad luck? Marcelino is confident. “We will reverse the trend, with work, with desire, as the players show. You can hardly ask for more. We were much better than our rivals, we had many more chances. And our opponent penalizes us on practically nothing. »
