Ismaël Bennacer and Olympique de Marseille could hardly hope for the first more successful. Only five days after his arrival in the Marseille city, the Algerian international has indeed sparkling in the Olympian midfield on Sunday on the lawn of the SCO of Angers.
While OM confirmed its good pass by winning 2-0, the former Milanese delivered an almost flawless copy like the 103 successful passes out of the 104 attempted. Enough to trigger a rain of praise with his teammates or his coach.
“” Isma, we know him. He's a great ball player. He recovers a lot too, he is very surly. This is what we needed in the team ”, Thus entrusted Adrien Rabiot to the microphone of Dazn. And Roberto de Zerbi was barely less enthusiastic. “” He's a great player. Isma really played very well and he is a great player for us, he said. It brings personality, quality. He wanted to come to Marseille, he loves the club. It is an honor to see him play with us. »»
“He made passes behind”
If most of the analysts also underlined the good match of the native of Arles, Christophe Dugarry was nevertheless completely against the tide, being particularly critical. “” But what do you make you advance the game? He made only passes behind. Please, we're not going to start saying that Gouiri and Bennacer, it's geniuses, phenomena. Bennacer, is it superior to Rongier? “, he castigated, adding:
“He has played seven matches since the start of the season. He played two an hour, he made only passes to remind. He made two small openings and he did not have the trunk. »»
And Duga was just as severe with the overall performance of the sky and white. “I'm waiting to see more play. I'm bored”, he said, doubting the ability of Marseillais to compete with PSG: “OM is on an ascending slope, but Paris will also progress. The real OM problem is not only to compete with Paris is to keep your players and perform in the Champions League. »»
