If OM have tasted the joys of victory again, the Marseille club is not yet healed, according to Emmanuel Petit, who fears that the Jean-Louis Gasset effect will not last forever.
OM is doing better. Since the takeover of the team by Jean-Louis Gasset, who replaced Gennaro Gattuso at short notice after the defeat of Ciel et Blanc in Brest (1-0), the residents of the Vélodrome have had two victories in a row, against Shakhtar Donetsk in the Europa League (3-1) then against Montpellier in Ligue 1 (4-1).
However, Emmanuel Petit believes that the Jean-Louis Gasset effect risks running out of steam in the coming weeks. The 98 world champion even fears a difficult end to the season for the Olympians, who should be too tight to secure a qualifying place for the next European Cup campaigns, according to him.
“I’m not going to burst into flames”
“When a coach arrives during the season, there is always a positive dynamic that sets in over the two weeks that follow,” explained the former French international. You always have a change in mentality, a change in behavior, players who play much better…”thus analyzed Emmanuel Petit on the airwaves of RMC.
And to add: “I’m waiting to see what will happen from mid-March. Because there, the deadlines will be very important in the European Cup, but also in the championship. There, they will play big. As far as my memory allows me, in the first part of the season, with the sequence of matches every three days, they were physically burned out, they could not do it after half an hour of play. No, I say today, I’m not going to burst into flames. I am not particularly convinced that OM can grab a place in the European Cup. » As a reminder, OM are currently 9th in L1, five points behind the Top 5.
