OM suffered their third defeat of the season against Nice on Saturday. In nine days. A first assessment which is likely to cost him his goal of podium.
12 points in nine days of the championship, or 15 points already gone, OM have made a start to the season well below their standards and ambitions. Weighted down by three setbacks suffered in the last four rounds, the Marseille club has already changed coach – by resignation – but Gennaro Gattuso, despite some promise in the game, is struggling to do better than Marcelino for the moment on an accounting level , with three points collected out of nine possible.
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In recent years, OM has hardly done worse than once, during the 2015-2016 financial year, under the orders of Michel – after a first act lost against Caen at the Vélodrome under the leadership of Marcelo Bielsa. This difficult season, started with only eight units at the end of the 9e day, the Olympians will finish it on the 13the rank. A real disaster for an initial contender for the podium and the Champions League.
Gerets, the model to follow
For comparison, Igor Tudor’s OM last year had already collected 23 points in nine games. The previous season, Jorge Sampaoli had gleaned 17 points in the interval with his team. Already behind by six, seven and eight lengths by the Parisians, Niçois and Monegasques, the Marseillais see their C1 objective severely compromised. In 15 years, only one Ligue 1 team has been able to make up such a gap to gain its place in the Champions League: Eric Gerets’ OM, during the 2007-2008 season. It’s up to Gennaro Gattuso to do just as well.
