Despite a comfortable position in the standings, OM are not necessarily convincing at the start of the season.
Eight points in the bag in four league games, OM’s pace is good at the start of the season. But beyond the chart of accounts, the manner is not necessarily there. This Friday against Nantes, like two weeks earlier in Metz (2-2), the Marseillais leading the score and in numerical superiority failed to win in the end (1-1). A feeling of repeated waste that inevitably leaves a bitter taste in the Olympians.
For Prime Video, Jean-Pierre Papin, adviser to President Pablo Longoria and responsible for supporting the attackers of the Marseille club, draws up an initial assessment while Ligue 1 will observe a first truce at the end of the weekend – international parenthesis obliges . ” It’s hard for us. We made the right startaccording to the 1991 Ballon d’Or. It is necessary when to take a big nod to this team of Nantes which did not retreat and which continued to play high with its weapons. It is certain that we carried the ball a lot without hitting the goal, which I regret. »
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The former glory of OM requires time and understanding for a Marseille team which, it is true, has been turned upside down again this summer; on the bench now occupied by Marcelino as in his workforce. ” We have just changed a lot of players, coaches and also organization. It’s not easy to set up, you have to get used to something else. We are improving from game to game. We started well with a very good first quarter of an hour and we fell back into our ways. (…) We will be satisfied with this point. Eight points after four days, two home wins and two away draws. For a start to the season with a whole new mindset, that’s not bad. »
