Olympique de Marseille finds C1. Thanks to their success in Le Havre (1-3), Saturday evening on the occasion of the 33e And penultimate day of Ligue 1, the Phocaeans are guaranteed to compete in the next Champions League campaign. Which was the goal displayed at the start of the season.
A qualification that Roberto de Zerbi celebrated at length with his players on the lawn of the Océane stadium, as well as with the many Marseille supporters who had made the trip to Normandy. Relieved, the Italian coach then settled his accounts with the press.
“” We saw that it was a family in the field. Look at Rabiot, Hojberg, Greenwood… We won. Here, that's why I made this decision (the internship in Rome, Editor's note). It is not true that the players were against me. It hurt me (to read it). There has never been a mutiny, there has never been a problem ”thus released the former Brighton coach at the microphone of Dazn, referring to the tensions to his of the Marseille group mentioned by the media after the defeat in Reims (3-1) on March 29.
De Zerbi: “It hurt me”
“RDZ” then returned to the benefits of greening in Rome: ” I believe that the coach must understand the determining moments. At the start of the season, we had problems at the Vélodrome, the ball burned their feet, we trembled a little, it was hard. We talked about it, we stayed together, united. Without putting football before other things. We dined together, spent many good times together. We trained less but we worked a lot on the union. »»
Finally, the 45-year-old technician posted his ambitions for the last match of the season next weekend against Rennes. “”
It's not over, we have to finish 2 yete (Monaco is 3e at a point, editor's note)he assured. Ligue 1 is difficult. How many players have changed, how many developments in the game we had, how many problems we had to overcome, how difficult it is in Marseille … I think we did something very big. »»
